With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into ...

Over time, these pancakes became the festival’s signature food. Known as a blini, or dense and yeasty buckwheat pancake, ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.

Not many people get to experience the sea at night. But along Ireland’s coast, travelers can indulge in the magic of floating over bioluminescent sparkles as billions of stars twinkle overhead.

In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese zodiac also rotates between the five traditional Chinese ...

It already exists in the natural world. Now, thanks to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, scientists have created ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

Much like the Galapagos, the remote Sub-Antarctic islands—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—deliver otherworldly landscapes and ...

Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique.