A new effort of the citizen-science effort Zooniverse, the Milky Way Project brings elements of gaming and social media to astronomy.

Solitary bees with a talent for producing durable polymers may point the way to a petroleum-free future.

Unless you grew up in the muds of Mono Lake, you had better be careful opening that box.

Eyes in the darkness and a snowstorm in reverse, players in an ecological chamber play.

Flying towards the future, eyes fixed on the past.

In scientific imagery, extraneous and ridiculous elements are a thing of the past. Or are they?

NPR's Robert Krulwich reports on an astonishing finding: blindfolded, no one can walk in a straight line.

A bacterial colony growing in a petri dish? A close-up of a lizard's iridescent, scaly skin? Answer after the jump.

he Cassini spacecraft has detected atmospheric oxygen on Rhea, a rocky, icy moon orbiting Saturn. 950 miles in diameter (less than half that of our moon), the tiny world is covered with water ice, which likely produces free oxygen as it is bombarded with charged particles from the magnetosphere of its parent planet, Saturn.

Future rulers of the planet, the crows, unlike cats and other animals, are smart enough to work together. Video after the jump.