Studying humanmade seismic waves is useful for a few reasons. It can help engineers construct safer buildings. City planners ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

What is your favorite way to eat a marshmallow? Melted in hot chocolate after a long day of sledding? Or roasted and squished between a slab of chocolate and graham crackers while you are sitting ...

A shape with symmetry has parts that match each other in some way. Imagine cutting a heart from a piece of paper. To ensure the two halves match perfectly, you might fold your paper in half. Then, you ...

Chocolate-chip sea stars are famous for the rows of dark, pointy bumps that cover each of their arms. The animals really look like they’re dotted with chocolate chips. But what’s inside their arms is ...

It seems some Egyptian royal women really were warrior princesses. Researchers examined five almost 4,000-year-old mummified princesses. Their results suggest these women were skilled users of the ...

Every day, people visit the toilet. Or, in developing nations, the field, pit or other location where they can relieve themselves. With more than 7 billion people on the planet, that’s a lot of waste.

Agrivoltaics is the practice of using the same land for farming and producing solar energy. This practice often consists of placing solar panels over farmland. The word “agrivoltaics” is a mash-up of ...

This article is one of a series of Experiments meant to teach students about how science is done, from generating a hypothesis to designing an experiment to analyzing the results with statistics. You ...

Mayflies mate in mid-air. Monarch butterflies make cross-continental flights. And dragonflies hunt as they soar. But despite how much insect activity happens in the air, scientists haven’t had a clear ...