Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades, scientists ...

This article isn't about a news item. Rather, it's more a celebration of how fascinating nature can be, and how it can sometimes be so damn cool that it actually blows our mind! The Mimic Octopus aka ...

David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes when he stumbled onto one unlike any other in November. When Smith shared ...

The term "planetarynebula" has always been a misnomer, but these spectacular clouds of dustand gas may actually have something to do with planets after all, astronomershave found. Whenastronomers ...

In this video I talk about an amazing type of metal called a shape memory alloy. The specific one in this video is called nitinol. It is an alloy of nickel and titanium. It forms an amazing structure ...

‘The spectre’: one of the extraordinary new repeating shapes discovered by a British pensioner – Copyright AFP Sam Yeh David Smith, a retired print technician ...