We all know someone who goes for a walk in the woods, and comes back with many ticks crawling on them.
Why do airplanes sometimes leave contrails behind, and what are they exactly?
At high levels, carbon dioxide can affect the brain to cause impaired thinking.
Scientists discovered a type of malaria in a twenty-million-year-old mosquito fossil from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber.
If you're eating toast, and you accidentally bump it to the floor, it seems more likely to land buttered side down.
We've been hearing a lot about the importance of gut bacteria. Now it seems that bacteria also have a say in how and when we eat.
The instant you decide to move your foot, the part of your brain's motor cortex responsible for sending commands to the foot goes into action. So what does this mean?
Have you ever prepared a meal that required lots of garlic and found that after all of that chopping your hands reek of garlic for the rest of the night?
You take a plate off the top of one stack. The other plates in the stack rise from below just far enough to present the next plate at the same height as the one you just took!
A few seeds from fruits such as watermelons or apples passing through your digestive tract won't hurt you. But they won't help you much either.
Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. But what even is that?
It may surprise you to learn that vampire bats are one of the most well-known examples of sharing in the animal kingdom.
How fast are your reflexes? Test them out with a falling dollar.
Since elephants are so big, they have way more cells than most animals. Which means more opportunities for elephant cells to go crazy and become cancerous. So why don't they get cancer?
Major events often make people happy, but does this last very long?
When ants first leave their nest to begin their jobs as foragers, they first have to make sure they can find their way home.
From stories of giant monsters to little green Martians, we humans can imagine some pretty strange creatures. Life, however, offers plenty of surprises here on Earth.
Moths are a lot less attracted to artificial light than they used to be. Learn more about what that means with today's A Moment of Science!
Other animals besides humans learn to recognize their relatives
Jellyfish, delicate and soft as they may be, thrive even in places you might not go swimming—including the Arctic.