Octopuses often bend their boneless arms to form "joints" like those in human arms, a new study saysinformation that could drive the next wave of robot arms.
Why do sunspot cycles, when plotted on a graph, look like butterfly wings? The answer could help predict solar storms, which can cause blackouts on Earth.
Archaeologists hope to prove a skeleton is that of the first leader of the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia. The answer may lie in the DNA of two of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold's relativesand the search begins today.
Mice with human brain cells and humans with pig tissue are only two real-life examples of chimerascreatures that are part human, part animal. But is it safeand ethical?
More than 50 nations plan to link their networks of satellites and other Earth observation sensors to create an early warning system for natural disasters.