Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...

When you think about a whale, you probably picture an enormous sea creature without legs. But what if I told you the first whale had four legs and could walk on land? I talked about whales and other ...

File shows a robot that uses the kind of motion seen in the mudskipper to move across a granular surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published ...

A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates that the galaxy has experienced recent interaction with another galaxy.

Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered ...

This is an interview with Dan Goldman, associate professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of ...