Missions such as Galileo around Jupiter and Cassini around Saturn have discovered over the last three decades that the giant ...

The Vault is approaching its one-year anniversary, so now is the perfect time to take another look at the stories that hide ...

If you’ve ever seen a branch locked inside a crystal-clear popsicle, then congratulations, you’ve seen glaze ice. It can form ...

Hognoses can also become prey for a lot of other species, such as raccoons, opossums, other snakes, and birds of prey. To ...

It all began with the discovery of ancient owl pellets – a gross but normal part of their digestion where they essentially ...

But whilst undeniably (and impressively) old, living through such events as the Aztec Empire and the exploding whale incident of 1970, they are colonial organisms. The oldest individual (non clonal) ...

"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...

Scientifically, artistically, and environmentally speaking, there’s a lot to take into account.

A new trackway was recently uncovered in Mongolia in a sedimentary layer from the Lower Cretaceous. That means that whatever ...

Glaciers are ancient accumulations of ice on top of mountains and frozen peaks that gently slump downhill over time, like a ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...