Beaked whiles are found to dive deeper than any other air-breathing creature. Yet oddly, only during shallow dives do they get the bends.

The pesticide concentrations detected in a new EPA study appear quite low. However, children are more sensitive to these chemicals than adults.

The male that mates with a female after other males is most likely to father offspring.

Droughts and storms will become more intense in the coming century if levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keep rising, new computer models suggest.

A new invisibility cloak can hide objects in the microwave range of light.

Scientists working in Mongolia’s windswept Gobi Desert recently fitted high-tech GPS collars on eight saiga antelope in an effort to help protect one of Asia’s most bizarre-looking and endangered large mammals.