An 18-month off-road trial will test underground charging systems to juice up on the go and extend driving range

Institute for Highway Safety is known for crash-test safety ratings, but as cars get smarter there's a need to look beyond crashworthiness

It's just a bit shorter than Mt. Everest

Yosemite, Redwood, and other famous parks as they look from outer space

There's a new contender in the century-old quest for perfect, guiltless sweetness: allulose. It's sugar — but in a form that our bodies don't convert into calories. Perfect? Not quite.

Researchers say findings may have important public health implications as vitamin supplements are relatively safe and cost-effective

Free-living songbirds show increased stress hormone levels when nesting under white street lights. But different light spectra may have different physiological effects as this study finds, suggesting that using street lights with specific colour spectra may mitigate effects of light pollution on wildlife

Sarcoptic mange can leave southern hairy-nosed and bare-nosed wombats blind and deaf before eventually killing them

Scientists identify the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot create images in their head

The dust in our homes contains an average of 9,000 different types of fungi and bacteria, a study suggests.

A mosquito can bear up to 23 times its total body weight on each leg, which is crucial for landing on water – the insect's secret is way it stands

Drones are being used to capture video footage that shows construction progress at the Sacramento Kings’ new stadium in California.

8-year-old Harapan joins his brother at an Indonesian breeding sanctuary; fewer than 100 "hairy rhinos" are left in the world

The white Kermode bear of British Columbia is galvanizing First Nations people fighting to protect their homeland

A naturalist cuts through the myths surrounding the invasive plant

Attracting the right species can help get rid of vine-munching insects and allow farmers to cut back on pesticides

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of online reading material. That’s why physical print-outs sometimes trump a digital copies

Annual vaccinations could be a thing of the past as scientists have successfully tested vaccines on animals infected with different strains of influenza

Websites try to suggest everything from your next best friend to your next best shirt. But are these recommendations a help or a hindrance?

Tropical species with smaller geographical ranges are more likely to die out in a warming climate than those that can adapt by ‘invading’ new regions

Remember winter, when everything was cold and grey? Right now, when all around is lush and green, the contrast couldn’t be greater. But is everything really as it seems? New research shows that we see things differently in winter compared with summer.

Most people think of bacteria as germs, signs of filth, or unwanted bringers of disease. Slowly, that view …

The gloomy octopuses crowded at Jervis Bay, Australia, appear to spit and throw debris such as shell at each other in what could be an intentional use of weapons

Therapies based on hormones that make us more trusting enhance our natural placebo effect – a finding that could alter the way clinical trials are conducted

A new app called Infltr taps into a smartphone's graphics processor to generate filters on the fly, allowing for the perfect shot in one step

Researchers have long struggled to resolve what happens to information when it falls inside a black hole, but the famous physicist says he has a solution

The blind, hairless babies born recently at Washington D.C.'s National Zoo are completely dependent on their mothers—who can sometimes accidentally crush them.

The poop-hoarding insects have an amazingly advanced internal GPS that allows them to navigate by day or night.

Windows 95, the operating system update that changed the way millions of people interacted with their computers, was released 20 years ago today.

Researchers have been using muons to take a peek inside the nuclear reactors in Japan that melted down in 2011. The results could aid the continuing cleanup operations.