Himanshu Goenka

When faced with low-oxygen situations, the small mammals produce energy by using a metabolic mechanism that was hitherto known only in plants.

NASA needs commercial crewed spacecraft, such as those being made by SpaceX and Boeing, to be capable of serving as emergency shelters and getaway vehicles.

The rover, which has been on Mars since 2004, is leaving the “Cape Tribulation” and is moving toward “Perseverance Valley,” both part of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.

Geert Folkertsma hopes it will lead to more energy-efficient robots that are also capable of walking “elegantly.”

In a class-action lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Chicago, audio equipment manufacturer Bose was accused of illegally creating listening profiles of its customers, and giving the data to third parties.

It is the first time large-scale accumulation of plastic has been observed in polar latitudes, where the human population is too low to be a significant source of pollution.

The feature shows up as a tab, alongside “Log” and “Contacts,” in the Phone app. Powered by Hiya, it makes finding and calling local businesses more convenient.

The country has a very ambitious space program, including building its own space station and landing on the far side of the moon.

A study carried out by researchers from Japan used functional MRI to look at the brains of gambling addicts.

It can capture minute details like the fine contours of a fingerprint from as much as one meter (3.3 feet) away, and does not require a long lens.

A study on behavioral science, published Friday, found “people make suboptimal choices when selecting their own profile pictures.”

Bacteria and fungi — which far outnumber animals and plants — communicate among themselves and with each other using fragrances, especially terpenes.

The computer model used to predict them can be used to design new magnetic materials at large scales and high speeds.

The HiRISE instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been capturing images of the Martian surface since 2006.

Built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the water harvester could pull almost three liters of water in 12 hours with humidity at 20-30 percent.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also said a pickup truck will be unveiled “in 18-24 months” and that the Model 3 will roll out in July.

The objects can permanently change into a range of different shapes under the effect of heat, extending earlier research which created objects that “remembered” their shape.

Earth’s sole natural satellite had a magnetic field once, but it disappeared about three billion years ago.

Teleocrater rhadinus was an ancient relative of dinosaurs, though not a direct ancestor. Surprisingly, it walked like crocodiles instead of like birds.

Ants are among the most socially structured species found on the planet, and lives of individuals were thought to have mattered little.

There were also insights into a fourth species, all of them belonging to the same family that was widespread across the continent till 13 million years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been killed or injured by mines, and the problem, though smaller now than 20 years ago, is far from over.

The newly discovered pistol shrimp is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and has a “distinct, almost glowing-pink snapping claw.”

It is a common experience to find the knots in your shoe strings undone, no matter how well you thought you tied them earlier.

Seen using gravitational lensing, the galaxy was formed about a billion years after the Big Bang, during a time known as the “Epoch of Reionization.”

Research published Monday suggests overfishing in regions with coral reefs has a twofold negative impact on the health of the corals.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has been investigating the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of Mars since September 2014, providing an insight into the planet’s history.

A photograph taken by the spacecraft Jan. 9, but released Monday by NASA, shows the various regions of the gas giant’s C ring.

Cutting trees in tropical forests creates debris that finds its way to beaches in Colombia, one of the world’s most important nesting sites for leatherback turtles.