Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS ...

Miniature organs grown in the lab can organize themselves into complex shapes, which enables scientists to use them to study disease. The trouble is they never do it the same way twice, which has made ...

We all remember that infamous scene in the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, where a boy licks a cold metal post on the ...

Organized by the school’s STEM Outreach Club, the second annual Extravaganza for students in kindergarten through eighth grade was designed to be bigger and better than last year’s, club officers ...

To kick off National Engineers Week, the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science invited hundreds of elementary, middle and high school ...

Thirty seals, primarily weaned pups, have died since late last week, scientists said. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of ...

Researchers have found a way to make ordinary aluminum tubes float indefinitely, even when submerged for long periods or punched full of holes. By engineering the metal’s surface to repel water, the ...

Hand holds elephant ear with cinnamon sugar in striped napkin - Gwenael Le Vot/Getty Images Some of the most exciting seasonal food in America has to be fair food, typically seen in the warm weather ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet ...

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip.

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...