Fish have the reasoning capacity of a 4- or 5-year-old child when it comes to figuring out who among their peers is "top dog," new research shows.

Humans, not climate change, caused the extinctions of large animals of Australia thousands of years ago, a new study suggests.

Five baby Komodo dragons have broken through their shells under the watchful eye of their virgin mom, Flora.

Behrokh Khoshnevis (USC Engineering) has been perfecting his contour crafting device, which squirts semi-liquid construction materials to form walls and domed ceilings.

Prevailing winds over North America blow from the West now, but they came out of the East a few thousand years ago.

Bags of decomposing leaves have allowed researchers to produce an elegant set of equations to calculate the nitrogen released into the soil during decomposition, which in turn could significantly improve the accuracy of global climate change models.