Birds Teach the Air Force a Better Way to Fly

Okay, you've probably heard that well-worn illustration about how geese fly in V-formation. Well, here's a new twist about how the U.S. Air Force ...

Researchers Reveal What Makes Orange Cats Orange

Garfield, Puss in Boots, Aristocats' Toulouse – cultural icons maybe, but most certainly orange. Scientists across two continents have made ...

Newly Discovered Snail Named After Picasso

In a remarkable fusion of art and science, researchers have unveiled Anauchen picasso, a newly discovered microsnail species from Southeast Asia, named ...

Zedonk Caught on Camera After Escape from Farm

In the quiet fields of Jackson County, Michigan, something wild—and wildly unexpected—was caught on camera: a zedonk, the rare hybrid offspring ...

We All Have a Need to Be Wowed

Blogger Stephanie Duncan Smith describes the awe she felt watching a total solar eclipse:

[My husband] Zach and I hiked up to a ridge with our supernova ...

Consider the Birds of the Air

In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its hatching ...

Those Whom God Evolves

Most people believe that evolution provides an adequate account of human origins. But for substantial numbers around the world, that doesn’t preclude ...

Photographer Wins AI Photo Competition

In a surprising turn of events, a real photograph entered into an AI-generated images category won a jury award but was later disqualified. Photographer ...

Who Programmed the Computer?

Our existence on a Goldilocks planet in a Goldilocks universe is so statistically improbable that many scientists believe in the multiverse. In other ...

Pregnant Stingray Confounds Experts

“Life will not be contained, life breaks free, it expands to new territories, it crashes into barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously,” ...