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 ...

The arm and shoulder bones of a gliding dinosaur might have just revealed the solution to a gruesome whodunit. Since 2002, researchers have unearthed more than 100 prehistoric bird remains in the ...

When you’re feeling sad, angry or stressed, it might be tempting to ask a chatbot for help. In fact, a new survey of 12- to 21-year-olds showed that nearly 1 in 5 of them had turned to AI for mental ...

Phenology is a field of science. It studies the seasonal and environmental cues that trigger life-cycle changes in living things. Imagine a tree as winter turns to spring. Bright green buds appear on ...

Kids learn in grade school that honeybees “create” a new queen bee by feeding a larva royal jelly. A new study find that the young bee’s diet may be only part of what crowns her queen. The chemical ...