Static electricity is all around us. It’s the reason clothes stick together when pulled out of the drier. It powers the lightning strikes that zip through storm clouds. It’s also…

Pluto and its largest moon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New research shows the dwarf planet and Charon may have paired up in a “kiss-and-capture” collision. That’s when…

Caecilian (noun, “suh-SEE-lee-uhn”) Caecilians are a group of worm-shaped amphibians. Caecilian means “blind ones” in Latin. The name fits: many species of caecilians lack eyes altogether. Those with them have…

Our brain’s memory center has a sleek design, new data show. The finding comes from looking at living human hippocampus tissue. This part of the brain plays a key role…

Does math leave you anxious? Maybe you feel it’s unforgiving — that unless everything is perfectly right, it’s totally wrong. Perhaps it just doesn’t compute for you. It’s like looking…

Researchers have discovered remains of a very ancient glacier — one that could be more than a million years old. It lay hidden on a remote island in the Canadian…

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — Astronomers have for the first time been able to see the innards of an exoplanet directly. Some 800 light-years away, this Neptune-sized world is spilling its guts…

In the dead of night, bats and insects are locked in an acoustic war. Bats send out ultrasonic clicks and listen for the echoes to home in on insect prey.…

Dimension (noun, “dih-MEN-shun”) In math, a dimension describes how many numbers you need to specify a particular location. Imagine a number line. You only need one number to pinpoint a…