Machine learning may not seem to have much connection with wildlife, but it’s starting to play a central role in bird conservation.

Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.

New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.

Using UV light on cantaloupe plants in the night shields them from powdery mildew, a damaging pathogen.

By shining a laser on a drop of blood, mucus, or wastewater, researchers can use the light reflecting back to positively identify bacteria.

People expect to brave brutally cold landscapes if they want to catch sight of the aurora borealis. So people were stunned to see the ethereal light display as far south as Cornwall.

With the help of thousands of citizen scientists, a new study measured exactly how much brighter night skies are getting every year.

People travel hundreds or thousands of miles and spend a fortune to see the night sky in all its splendor. But we are literally blocking out the cosmic beauty above our homes.