Over 500 years ago, Europeans began coming to the New World in growing numbers largely because of its rich resources. The Americas, of course, had already been populated by Native Americans for ...

By being able to wait for better food, cuttlefish — the squishy sea creatures similar to octopuses and squids — showed self-control that's linked to the higher intelligence of primates. It was part of ...

When the nuclei of atoms are about to collide in an experiment, their centers never perfectly align along the direction of relative motion. This leads to collisions with complex three-dimensional ...