Led by Dr. Patrick Treuthardt of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the project asks everyday volunteers to ...

The human mind has an insatiable hunger for answers. We’ve split the atom, mapped the human genome, and sent robots to Mars. Yet for all our technological prowess and scientific breakthroughs, the ...

Evolution has produced a vast range ofanimal defense strategies, like heavy armor and camouflage abilities. However, nature is also capable of developing some truly odd protection strategies. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species. Then, ...

Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that ...

Scientists have directly watched angular momentum move through a crystal for the very first time — and discovered a bizarre twist along the way. Using ultra-powerful terahertz laser pulses, ...