$8.5M Energy Dept. grant to explore hybrid rocket potential The Department of Energy has awarded the University at Buffalo $8.5 million to create [...]

Stacked photo of fireflies in Tennessee. Image via University of Colorado. Fireflies get in sync when peers are around Male fireflies light up in [...]

Telescopes capture destruction of star by black hole Several Earth-based telescopes caught the rare light flash that signified the stretching, and ultimately the [...]

How to connect with a cat? It's in the eyes A study in Scientific Reports found that cats respond positively when people, including [...]

Tool use highlights ants' sophisticated brain power Ants have been observed using grains of sand as a tool to help collect water and [...]

Fossils of 68M-year-old beaked dinosaur discovered Fossils of a parrot-like dinosaur with a large beak and two fingers have been found in Mongolia [...]

Gauging the extent of microplastic pollution in oceans An estimated 14 million metric tons of microplastics have accumulated on the seafloor, which is [...]

NASA deploys $23M toilet into space Roughly four tons of equipment and supplies are on their way to the International Space Station following [...]

Scientists examine how tree growth would affect climate Two recently published papers in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shed [...]

Interacting with horses can ease teens' social anxiety High-school students in Hungary who participated in a four-year agricultural curriculum that included hands-on interaction [...]