In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the ...

The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an ab ...

Tom Crawford teaches at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. At Oxford he is the Public Engagement Lead at the Department for Continuing Education, and a fe ...

(via Steve Mould) Döbereiner's lamp uses a platinum catalyst to react hydrogen with oxygen.