Great frigatebirds can put one half of the brain to sleep while the other half keeps an eye on the turn.

Before a woven flower appeared in silk, it could exist as an ordered absence: holes punched through a chain of stiff cards.

One male flashes.

A fungus spent months quietly removing material from violin wood.

Brazil's largest field of white coastal dunes becomes a moving mosaic of freshwater when seasonal rain fills the spaces between them.

In Baarle, a national border can cross the living room, but the front door decides where the building is registered.

SoFi replaced a propeller's churn with a fluid-pumped tail and carried a camera quietly among reef fish.

Evelyn Berezin turned office typing into editable electronic text before personal computers reached the desk.

A Utah aspen grove occupies 106 acres, yet its trunks share one genetic identity beneath the soil.

A burst from the Sun turned miles of telegraph wire into an accidental electrical instrument.