The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely.

The second phase of the project will involve "banking" rainwater by injecting it directly into strategic boreholes to prevent the ground from collapsing due to depletion.

Whether you’re like me and are a bit of a weather geek or you just like staring at pretty satellite images, Zoom Earth is worth checking out. This nifty site shows global weather and climate data in ...

A startup accelerator focused on “dual-use” technology — tools designed for both commercial and military use — is launching a ...

What started as a routine elevator shaft installation in a Barcelona hotel basement has turned into one of the most significant Roman archaeology discoveries in Spain in decades. Excavations beneath ...

Commuters, residents and tourists who take to social media during warm months to complain about sweltering subway systems in New York, Boston and London should feel vindicated — new research says ...

For the first time in more than 150 years, giant tortoises are returning to the wild on Floreana Island in the Galápagos — ...

Two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes have joined forces to produce a stunning new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most visually complex objects in the known universe. The ...

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Soils surrounding large, ancient alerce trees in Chile accumulate a disproportionately high diversity of fungi, which help store more carbon and make the entire forest healthier, suggesting that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Shutterstock / jrector44 (Image via Shutterstock / jrector44) At first glance, Black-Footed Cats look impossibly ...

The follow-up to Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line explores the history of colonial exploration through a perilous 19th-century odyssey With her peripatetic and philosophical second novel, Deepa ...