The mantis shrimp’s club uses a built-in vibration shield that filters out damaging shock waves to enable it to strike with bullet-like force without breaking. Mantis shrimps pack a powerful punch — and...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can’t be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath. Scientists say...

Scientists have discovered a “perfect disordered hyperuniform” pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources. Scientists...