Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Brown: The quantity of data in the world is increasing exponentially. And we expect that to continue to increase — and ...

Mammals are a diverse group of animals. They include about 6,600 known, living species. Many of them, including humans, cats ...

To show how monkeys think about math and shapes, scientists had them play games — including some designed by kids.

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New high-tech tools let scientists “tag” along with these red-footed seabirds to solve the mystery of how boobies spend their ...

The largest solar telescope in the world captured swirling plasma structures on the sun’s surface. Take a look.

The people of Sarekha Khurd have grown rice for longer than they can remember. A few hundred families live in this village in north-central India. Trees separate their little fields, which are slanty ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

A deadly fungus has been wiping out amphibians around the globe. But some frogs that have developed resistance to the disease are helping their species bounce back. Mountain yellow-legged frogs used ...

Miles Wu, 14, has been folding origami for seven years. Some of his favorite shapes to make are insects and birds. But recently, Miles got curious about a type of fold known as Miura-Ori. He’d read ...