In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

Warmer weather means it’s time to start planning for your summer vegetable harvests. Here are 7 different veggies to plant ...

Videos of dogs watching the animated film “Flow” have gone viral recently, and science backs up the adorable phenomenon.

Since the release of the first Animal Crossing game, the series has expanded significantly, including its roster of villagers.

Despite their breathtaking beauty and crayon wardrobe, painted buntings are surprisingly elusive. They prefer dense ...

The Battle of Franklin was one of the Civil War’s bloodiest encounters, and sites like Carter House and Carnton Plantation preserve this difficult history with honesty and respect. Carter House bears ...

A consortium of Austrian research groups from the University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna and Technikum Wien, together with ...

Some animals perceive colors beyond human vision, including ultraviolet and infrared, showcasing extraordinary color vision. Here are some such animals! Bees rely on ultraviolet vision to locate ...

This superstition about black cats and other black animals in general has shaped people’s preferences about animals. It’s left its mark on things such as lower adoption rates for black cats and ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a ...