A Moment of Science

Research suggests there's a link between parenting styles and health effects later in life

As any aficionado will tell you, water can be just as important as the tea leaves themselves when it comes to a good brew.

If the color of the bottles was significant enough to control how they’re recycled, then surely the color was more than cosmetic. So what's the reason why wine bottles are olive-green and beer bottles are amber?

Because of the isolation, New Zealand has evolved a unique set of animals dominated by abundant bird species found nowhere else.

Exposure to music, art, and architecture can have a formative impact on our sense of self.

Fingerprints might be unique to one person, but they aren't unique to one species.

Have you ever made rice that was perfectly fluffy and then the next day, taken it out of the fridge only to find it hard and crumbly?

Normally, when tissue gets injured, cells start replicating and make new tissue. But what about the heart?

In a letter written in 1761, Benjamin Franklin tells how he collected some little squares of broadcloth. Franklin wanted to demonstrate that these colors would absorb different amounts of light from the sun and convert the light to different amounts of heat.

Just like Goldilocks, humans have searched for a place that's "just right" to live in. That's not the same for all species, though.

We usually think of paint as a substance that adds color to things. But, from a physical point of view, paint works by taking colors away.

Tennis players are known for the loud grunts they make during a game. Why do they do it?

In 2019 a team of Swedish and British scientists published a study claiming that whether we chose to own a dog may be influenced by our genes.

Physicists are searching for new materials with better semiconductor properties so that computers can continue to improve.

We just covered why the sky is blue, but there are a few areas without color above us.

It can't be the atmosphere, or dust, or water droplets. So what makes the sky blue?

Water temperature is a major element of quality control in making coffee. Why exactly is temperature important?

Rattlesnakes modulate their rattling frequency to trick other animals into thinking the distance between them is shorter than it really is.

Proboscis monkeys from Borneo and cows do have something in common: they both chew their cuds.

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is the driest desert on Earth. The only life there is microbial, and researchers study it to get an idea of what we might find on Mars.

One study proposes that this “sort of a man” described as “shortish, and oldish, and brownish and mossy” could have been inspired by the patas monkey.

Paleontologists constantly search for new species of fossilized creatures from the distant past to expand our understanding of the history of life on Earth.

Mosquitoes always seem to find us, no matter how hard we try to get away. How do they do it?

The next time you're driving during a rain shower, glance back at the rear window. You'll notice that while raindrops batter the front windshield, they seem to avoid the back window as long as the car is moving. How is that possible?

Megachile pluto, commonly called “Wallace’s giant bee” is the world’s largest bee. And perhaps its most elusive.