Nature is brimming with color in almost every season. While the majority of colors are matte, some are shiny. Evolutionary ...

Shimmering, metallic colors feel like they should be everywhere in the natural world, yet they are surprisingly scarce, ...

The advent of smartphone technology has revolutionised physics education by transforming everyday devices into versatile and accessible scientific instruments. These experiments utilise the embedded ...

Childhood is a time to spend outdoors exploring, jumping in puddles, and playing in mud not just looking at screens. That’s ...

Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests ...

When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, the volcano propelled huge amounts of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere and cooled the planet by a half a degree Celsius (1degree Fahrenheit) ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Conventional wisdom has it that putting the ...

Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks of light appearing out of thin air; with observations like those, it’s a wonder that the early ...

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab. Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by ...