Wearing video cameras, the world's smallest penguins have revealed their hunting secrets: The little blue birds swim together to stalk groups of prey, but when it comes to catching and killing their meals, it's every penguin for itself.
Researchers fastened a camera to a little penguin in order to study its foraging behavior. The study found that the penguins tend work together to capture 'schooling prey' and are likely to work alone for 'solitary prey'.
The bizarre rigid "sail" on the back of a newfound species of herbivorous dinosaur may have helped the paleo-beast survive in a variety of climates, a new study finds.
A tongue-in-cheek medical journal article takes a spooky tone with its metaphor for infectious disease.
A picture is worth a thousand words, or, in Greenland, a thousand scientific measurements.
An early look at what to expect from Episode VII.
Author and PBS host Robert Lawrence Kuhn brings his unique, mind-bending questions to the Expert Voices platform.
Intermittent fasting, or fasting just a few days a week, was initially decried by health experts as unhealthy. But new studies show it might not be so bad.
Are real lightsabers possible?
While the tech behind the “Star Wars” is firmly rooted in fantasy, the franchise has served as inspiration for many real-life scientists and engineers. Here are some of the most notable attempts to turn "Star Wars'" science fiction into science fact.
Some devoted "Star Wars" fans who also happen to be scientists share their appreciation for the iconic movie series by giving its characters' names to newly discovered species.
The lack of a carbon tax amounts to a hidden subsidy that incentivizes "bad behavior," Musk said Tuesday (Dec. 15) at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in San Francisco.
With 350 head-bangs each second, the Australian Blue-Banded Bee takes a unique, 'heavy metal' approach to pollination. High-speed speed video of the little buzz-fueled ‘rocker' shows pollen flung around similar to the action of a salt shaker.
The Arctic experienced its warmest average temperatures and lowest levels of sea ice on record, as well as other changes associated with global warming.
A high-tech analysis of the fossils of a mouse-size creature that lived in Greenland suggests that mammals originated more than 30 million years more recently than thought, the researchers say. And the first mammals were plant eaters.
The black-feathered greater vasa parrot has a new skill to add to its resume — the use of tools to grind shells to create calcium powder, which it then proceeds to lick up with its pink tongue, a new study finds.
Greater Vasa parrots (Coracopsis vasa) use pebbles or date pits to break apart seashells that provide dietary calcium. Researchers claim this is the first documented case of a non-human species using grinding tools.
The level of "neural noise," or the random neural activity in the brain increases when people are given THC, a new study finds.
What to worry about after a bout of shingles.
Attention, sea-loving explorers: There's a $7 million reason to get serious about your passion for ocean research right now.
