(Inside Science) -- The NBA season tips off this week, and home-court advantage could play a big role in determining who advances in the playoffs and eventually claims the championship. But how much ...

A unified climate-energy model framework is needed to ensure grid reliability and security in a renewable energy-powered ...

(Inside Science) -- Three miles below the town of Cushing, Oklahoma, tectonic forces squeeze the rock with a pressure of more than 7,000 pounds per square inch. For years now, wastewater pumped ...

Hydrodynamic analysis of suckermouth catfish wake-start behavior guides biomimetic robot design.

As climate change melts away frozen landscapes, scientists rush to discover all they can about the tiny organisms that thrive on ice. (Inside Science) -- It was a hard hike up to the glacier. Pico ...

(Inside Science) -- A newfound fossil that scientists described as perplexing, beautiful and the platypus of the crab family is now shedding light on how its crustacean relatives evolved, a new study ...

Understanding the relationship between the structure of a tornado-like vortex and how it transports debris can help curb its ...

Ancient stencils of hands with “mutilated” fingers may actually show a type of sign language used for hunting or silent rituals. (Inside Science) -- Tens of thousands of years ago in what is now ...

Spider species in the group known as long-jawed orb weavers can carry water drops in their mouths. Gould was on a night field trip on Australia’s Kooragang Island, looking for threatened frogs, when ...

With the planned return of humans on the Moon, it is important to consider how electron flux affects not only scientific data ...

Flying is a complex endeavor. Humans have invented several wildly different ways of getting ourselves airborne, and in animals, flight has independently evolved at least four times. Among those, ...

Mediterranean monk seals are the rarest seal species on the planet, with only a few hundred individuals living on a collection of islands throughout the Mediterranean. Conservation efforts are ...