Pluck the silk of a spiderweb and it vibrates like a guitar string, scientists say. By strumming the strands and detecting the vibrations via sensors in its legs, a spider gets information about meals and mates. [1:18]

The Hubble Space Telescope has been staring out into deep space since 1990. In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, this is a parody of Iggy Azalea's song "Trouble." [1:20]

Just over two centuries ago in 1804, the global population was 1 billion. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West....

NPR reports on an exhibit at San Diego's Natural History Museum, which features 120-million-year-old fossils discovered in northeastern China that reveal a link between birds and dinosaurs.

Some scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs abruptly disappeared because of a huge crater created by an extraterrestrial impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Find out about this challenge and what they're saying about...

Did dinosaurs once survive on Antarctica, the most remote and inhospitable place on earth? This concise site provides the answer.

NPR reports on a team of Chinese paleontologists that discovered the fossilized remains of a small flying dinosaur with four wings.

Listen to a story about an old Sutton, West Virginia, a hotel that is believed to be haunted.

This site is provided for by National Public Radio. A seven foot tall rodent that weighs nearly one ton seems like something out of the movies, but researchers have found a skeleton of a rodent the size of a horse. Read about this...

The moments in history when famous scientists discovered gravity, evolution, and relativity. (This is really an ad for Skunk Bear's tumblr account which is no longer being updated.) [1:03]