Parrotfish construct a cocoon made from mucus to protect themselves when they are sleeping. It's like a personal mosquito net ...

The science pros at TKOR reveal how to make Ninja Turtle slime completely from scratch.

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I am going to show you how to make slime for kids easy at home using 3 ingredients! This easy slime recipe only requires 3 basic everyday household ...

The movie "Ghostbusters II" shows how evolved instincts clash with fast, high-pressure systems and how to defeat them.

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...

Engineers have developed a new way to produce tagatose, a low-calorie sugar, using engineered bacteria and cheap glucose ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly ...

We often inherit cleaning habits from parents or pick them up from viral videos. We scrub surfaces with total confidence in ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

The particles can even find their way to your food.