A Moment of Science

Does your pet give you the evil eye when they get fed a few minutes late? Its like they know...but do they?

The Gulf Stream is a current of warm water in the North Atlantic Ocean that travels up the Eastern coast of North America. Media reports have raised concerns that it may collapse as the climate warms due to human activities like burning fossil fuels.

Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over 31,000 years old, was resurrected after a long frozen sleep.

Figs have their thousands of individual flowers folded up inside them, so they can't rely on bees or wind to pollinate them with a male fig's pollen. That's where the fig wasp comes in.

Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air pollution, there might be a connection.

Scientists once thought that aging and death were the inevitable fate of all complex living things. But then, by accident, they discovered they were wrong.

On today's Moment of Science, we'll be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary conundrum: the great cilantro debate.

Grandmother elephants are important for the survival of baby calves.

English is full of phrases that connect appearance to taste. However, scientists have been discovering that the connection between the two runs deeper than simple metaphors.

Sometimes, when a frog eats a large insect, you can see it squirming in the frog’s belly, desperate to escape. Lack of air, acids, and digestive enzymes seal its inevitable doom.

Scientists looked at the nestbox choices of pied flycatchers after the birds observed the "success" of nesting great tits.

Is there a reason operating rooms are always so cold and drafty?

Colorful or plain, skinny or chubby, big or small, the nearly 2,000 species have it all.

Vaccine skeptics might see vaccines the way they do because they tend to overestimate the likelihood of rare negative events.

How do scientists figure out even basic facts such as whether an animal walked on land or swam in the sea?

Researchers classify an animal behavior as play when it doesn’t involve an external reward, such as food, seems to serve no purpose, occurs repeatedly, and happens when the animal is relaxed and not facing threats.

Scientists find clues to how the earth's climate is changing by looking to the past.

Demand for rare earth elements is soaring, and it will continue to grow in the future.

When the bismuth combines with the trace amounts of sulfur in your saliva and in your gastrointestinal tract, it reacts to form a black substance called bismuth sulfide.

King Tutankhamen of Egypt has fascinated people ever since archeologist Howard Carter discovered his splendid tomb in 1922.

Bitterness, like sweetness or saltiness, is one of the major taste sensations. And while it makes our food flavorful, detecting bitterness can sometimes be a warning that we’re eating something toxic.

What's your earliest memory?

It takes much less time for the sun to light up the sky at dawn than it does for all the light to disappear after the sun sets at dusk.

If you drink a glass of ice water on a hot day, what temperature is the ice?

There are some biological differences between the sexes, but do they extend to the brain?