Two new studies have revealed why some cats are orange – an enduring enigma of genetics, until now.

Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, ...

The researchers led by Dr. Eleanor Raffan zoomed in on the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, which plays a crucial role in ...

They say you can identify the leopard by its spots, but as it turns out, you can also identify it through its unique roar. Leopards, notoriously difficult to monitor due to their elusive nature, could ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

The ancient Romans had a profound relationship with wine. It was not just a beverage for them but an essential part of daily ...

But zoom in a bit more and those specs become goats standing on the seemingly vertical construction. So what’s happening?!

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

Greensboro. He has authored twelve books and more than 180 academic articles, which have been translated into Arabic, Chinese ...

Elizabeth Quill is a science writer and editor based near Washington, DC. She’s fascinated by how complexity — in our cosmos, ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s ...

Present-Day Plate Boundaries: This model improves upon existing models, incorporating attributes from geophysical, ...