Nature occasionally produces animals that seem dipped in gold, their fur, feathers, or scales glowing brilliantly in sunlight ...

By about 175 million years ago, a group known as Pennaraptora had emerged - the closest known relatives of modern birds and ...

Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first controlled, machine-powered ...

The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

A science experiment pushes an engine past its limits, breaking it down to explain the physics behind what went wrong and how the failure happened.

Pigeons may sense Earth’s magnetic field using their inner ear, sending signals to brain areas that help with navigation and ...

If you've ever watched a batter get beaten by a ball that curved, jagged or dipped at the last moment, you've seen one of ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

A flutter of blue and yellow darts through a field in late May. Trees, shrubs and summer flowers fill the landscape. A ...