The Japanese art of paper folding is called origami — from the Japanese words “oru” (to fold) and “kami” (paper).

Within the ocean region where El Niños form, daily sea-surface temperatures are already more extreme than at any point in ...

Van Allen belts — or Van Allen radiation belts — are donut-shaped rings of charged particles that encircle Earth. Earth has two permanent belts: the inner and outer belts. Changes in solar activity ...

Camouflage is a disguise that allows an organism to blend into its surroundings and avoid being seen. An organism’s shape, pattern, color or even movement are all traits that can provide camouflage.

Pyrolysis is a process though which heat breaks down large molecules into smaller ones. It is just one of the chemical ...

People make a lot of gas, and it’s got to come out one end or the other. Understanding those farts and burps could tell us a ...

Humans aren’t the only animals who fart. Take Dakota, an English cocker spaniel. When she was getting older, she could no ...

Earth’s oceans are heating up. But since the 19th century, one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree ...

Studying this paradox eventually led scientists to a deeper understanding of cancer biology. A paradox is when a scenario ...

For naked mole-rats, the queen wields such power. Naked mole-rat queens release a calming scent to control their colonies, a ...

This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Remember the ...