SCIENCE

Tiny people giggle at everything from tickling to peek-a-boo to silly faces. But do they really have a sense of humor?

It took University of Texas grad student Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to write a proof that solved the famous Conway Knot.

Two asteroids are projected to swing by Earth in the coming months, but the odds of them causing a problem are very low.

As long as you wash your hands and don’t touch your face, your chances of catching COVID-19 from food are basically zilch.

Wait times at Disney World and Disneyland can get long, but Imagineers use clever strategies to make the hours move faster.

This new revelation about how sperm propel themselves to eggs could inform future studies on male infertility.

Lurking in the sewer systems under your feet is a threat so horrifying, so disgusting, that the mere mention of it sends a shiver down the spines of sanitation specialists everywhere. Here’s what you need to know about fatbergs.

The familiar shark-hunting vessel from the 1975's 'Jaws' is being recreated for ocean research and to encourage shark conservation.

Honey from hives downwind from the Notre-Dame fire contained 3.5 times as much lead as Parisian honey collected before April 2019.

New archeological evidence pushes back the arrival of the first North Americans 15,000 years and suggests they occupied the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum, 26,000 to 19,000 years ago.

The bouncing baby hybrid fish have their sturgeon mother’s mouth—and her penchant for meat-eating, too.

Attempting to decode cat behavior can lead to madness. But we do have some idea of why cats like blinking at us.