It's happened to the best of us: We throw a new cotton shirt into the dryer without thinking, and voilà — we now have a shirt fit for a toddler. Cotton is susceptible to this kind of laundry blunder ...

In this quick science demo, I show how tiny water beads transform when you add salt. First I compare dry beads to ones that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — To survive warming oceans, ...

Animals are changing their behaviors and bodies in response to man-made climate change. In recent years, some birds have exhibited larger beaks that help them dispel excess body heat. Animals that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papa ...