A Moment of Science: Audio

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.

Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. But what even is that?

It may surprise you to learn that vampire bats are one of the most well-known examples of sharing in the animal kingdom.

How fast are your reflexes? Test them out with a falling dollar.

Since elephants are so big, they have way more cells than most animals. Which means more opportunities for elephant cells to go crazy and become cancerous. So why don't they get cancer?

Major events often make people happy, but does this last very long?

When ants first leave their nest to begin their jobs as foragers, they first have to make sure they can find their way home.

From stories of giant monsters to little green Martians, we humans can imagine some pretty strange creatures. Life, however, offers plenty of surprises here on Earth.

Moths are a lot less attracted to artificial light than they used to be. Learn more about what that means with today's A Moment of Science!

Other animals besides humans learn to recognize their relatives

Jellyfish, delicate and soft as they may be, thrive even in places you might not go swimming—including the Arctic.

Any list of the world's top ten most famous paintings will surely include da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." Part of the painting's appeal is its mystery.

Scientists are now considering the role that dopamine plays in our bodies’ response to other stimuli, such as surprising, new, or negative events.

Did you know that dog’s noses can be tens of thousands of times more sensitive than ours?