Realistic robots get under Galapagos lizards' skin

Male lava lizards are sensitive to the timing of their opponents’ responses during contest displays, with…

Snowkyo 2020: Tokyo organisers to test fake snow to cool Olympics

Tokyo 2020 Olympic chiefs have already rolled out everything from misting stations to flowerbeds to beat…

Dorian strengthens to Category 3 storm as it threatens US east coast

Hurricane Dorian has claimed at least 20 lives, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said, warning the…

Bolivia has lost 1.7 million hectares to fire: government

Wildfires raging in Bolivia’s forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million…

Trump administration pulls plug on energy-efficient bulb rules

Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday issued a new rule reversing a requirement for all new light…

Copy cat: Chinese firm creates first cloned kitten

Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th…

Russia's Novatek announces launch of huge Arctic gas project

Russia’s Novatek on Thursday announced the launch of a major liquefied natural gas project in the…

Scientists find new, long-hypothesized material state with signature of quantum disordered liquid-like magnetic moments

The future of technology relies, to a great extent, on new materials, but the work of…

From the tropics to the boreal, temperature drives ecosystem functioning

University of Arizona ecology and evolutionary biology processor Brian Enquist and former doctoral student Vanessa Buzzard…

NASA catches the eye of Typhoon Lingling

Typhoon Lingling continues to strengthen in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA’s Terra satellite imagery revealed…