A Moment of Science: Audio

Not just any old plant has what it takes to survive desert heat.

There are orchids that smell like rotting meat and orchids that smell like fish to attract pollinators. This one smells like us.

Just like Pigpen and his cloud of dust, we have a cloud of bacteria that follows us everywhere

A camel can travel hundreds of miles, over several days, without stopping to drink. On today's Moment of Science, we'll learn how camels survive the dry desert.

Compared to craving other things, such as alcohol for example, having a yearning for sweets seems relatively harmless.

A warm drink on a cold day is a great combo, and humans aren't the only species to discover this.

Do you live near a dormant volcano? You might have a weird wonderland right beneath your feet.

Kazumura is a lava cave over forty miles long, the largest in the world!

Deep in some underground pools lives a shadowy creature. Its existence has remained hidden away—until now.

Some days rain falls in a light, calm sweep across the earth. On other days rain falls in a torrential downpour, flooding the ground below. So, what causes this difference?

If we stub our toes or get other sudden injuries, sometimes a swear pops out. Could they be helpful?

Locusts gather into huge, ravenously hungry migratory swarms.

Hearing or reading language used in this shifted way causes a sudden jump in brain activity.

Cleaner wrasse have made it their jobs to clean their fish friends.

Where and how we interact with mosquitos has become complicated by climate change.