A Moment of Science

Where does color come from?

In 2019 a team of Israeli scientists published evidence that the evening primrose plant can detect the specific sound vibration frequencies of the buzz of an insect’s wings.

Every student who has ever taken a course in neuroscience or psychology has heard of Patient HM.

We share a lot of genetic material in common with our chimpanzee relatives, and maybe some personal characteristics too.

One frosty morning you awake to a blanket of fresh snow. Adventure awaits! Do you go skiing? Skating? Building snowmen? Or you could do some physics!

French scientists tested dogs to see if they could recognize the faces of other dogs on a computer screen.

While not an ordinary part of the cuisine of the United States, insects are a common food source for millions of people around the world. It might be time Americans reconsidered their lack of bug-based eating.

In evolutionary theory, an inherited trait is favored by natural selection when it helps an individual to produce more offspring than its competitors.

Modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Specifically, paleontologists have shown that birds evolved from a group of two legged dinosaurs called theropods.

June 1969. Not one airliner but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harassed by a team of UFOs.

Coffee and cacao beans are fermented. Similar to wine, the flavor of the beans is determined by the type of yeasts and microorganisms present.

From DIY oven cleaner to removing odor from rugs, baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, has long been known as an essential home cleaning agent.

A "niche" is an organism's special "slot" in an ecosystem that allows it to co-exist with other species.

When someone moves, fluid sloshes inside the ears’ semicircular canals. The fluid tugs at tiny strands of hair.

The Apollo astronauts were at risk of something many people don't know about. The Sun.

We all know someone who goes for a walk in the woods, and comes back with many ticks crawling on them.

Why do airplanes sometimes leave contrails behind, and what are they exactly?

At high levels, carbon dioxide can affect the brain to cause impaired thinking.

Scientists discovered a type of malaria in a twenty-million-year-old mosquito fossil from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber.

If you're eating toast, and you accidentally bump it to the floor, it seems more likely to land buttered side down.

We've been hearing a lot about the importance of gut bacteria. Now it seems that bacteria also have a say in how and when we eat.

The instant you decide to move your foot, the part of your brain's motor cortex responsible for sending commands to the foot goes into action. So what does this mean?

Have you ever prepared a meal that required lots of garlic and found that after all of that chopping your hands reek of garlic for the rest of the night?

You take a plate off the top of one stack. The other plates in the stack rise from below just far enough to present the next plate at the same height as the one you just took!

A few seeds from fruits such as watermelons or apples passing through your digestive tract won't hurt you. But they won't help you much either.