Over time, these pancakes became the festival’s signature food. Known as a blini, or dense and yeasty buckwheat pancake, ...

With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.

Not many people get to experience the sea at night. But along Ireland’s coast, travelers can indulge in the magic of floating over bioluminescent sparkles as billions of stars twinkle overhead.

It already exists in the natural world. Now, thanks to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, scientists have created ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese zodiac also rotates between the five traditional Chinese ...

Much like the Galapagos, the remote Sub-Antarctic islands—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—deliver otherworldly landscapes and ...

Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique.

Follow in the footsteps of a Welsh king by scaling Cader Idris, but beware: it’s said those who sleep on the peak are destined to become poets or go mad.

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...