Bats may have the heaviest wings comparatively to their body size-but why? Scientists have taken a closer look at bat wings and have found that they're specially designed to allow the mammals to land upside down.
Without us, pumpkins and squashes may have gone extinct in North America.
Groundwater can be found throughout the globe, and is one of the most exploited resources on the planet. It ranges from months to millions of years old and now, researchers have mapped the extent of this precious resource.
It isn't only vegetables that are being grown in space. Flowers are also having a turn. NASA has announced that flowers could be blooming on the International Space Station after the New Year.
Here's another reason to drink coffee.
Brains scans may help predict recovery from a coma, according to a recent study.
Are United States cities prepared for climate change? A new study has examined six American cities and has ranked them in terms of how prepared they are for changing weather.
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found genes that affected both motor coordination and body weight in mice, which may shed light on the onset of some neurodegenerative illnesses in humans.
Earth's climate may be far more sensitive to carbon dioxide than scientists once thought.
Researchers have discovered a 170-million-year-old mouse-sized fossil from the Middle Jurassic, which is revealing new information about the evolution of molar teeth in modern mammals.
Former smokers who quit within the last year are more likely to use e-cigarettes, according to a recent study.
Astronomers from Yale and Harvard have discovered a distant galaxy with a "heartbeat." The researchers even got a pulse of a heartbeat every 270 days.
