Science & Nature

The story almost everyone learned in school is wrong. What the hump actually does, and what a camel can do without water, is stranger than the myth.

They do not spit the way people do, the hump is not a water tank, and nobody discovered them in 1967. A guide to the camel stories that refuse to die.

One lives in trees and eats bark. The other digs burrows and rattles its tail like a warning bell. They look alike, but they are barely related.

Llamas are camels, more or less. The family started in North America, spread to two continents and left relatives on both sides of the world.

Dromedary or Bactrian? Counting humps is the easy part. Climate, coat, range and even price set the two species apart.

In the 2000s, GM put a hundred fuel-cell SUVs in the hands of ordinary drivers. Two decades later, hydrogen cars are still rare. Here is why.

The August 2026 total eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Here are the next chances to stand in the moon’s shadow, and why the U.S. has to wait until 2044.

Most of its neurons are in its arms, it can solve puzzles and escape tanks, and it lives only a year or two. The octopus is the closest thing on Earth to an alien mind.

Old educational films loved showing a squirrel beating an obstacle course for a nut. Modern research suggests the animals are even cleverer than the films let on.