How did penguins end up with so few bones – and become lightning-fast swimmers?

Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.

A healthy diet can include some candy. But if you eat too much, it can interfere with your appetite for the stuff your body actually needs.

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous people who view them as sacred.

Extended periods of rain are most likely found in locations where mountains are near oceans.

The answer is more complicated than you might think. It has to do with how your body gets rid of old red blood cells.

Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?

Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?