But the Windy City’s “rat hole” may not be what it seems. New research into the identity of the creature that caused a sidewalk imprint when it fell into freshly poured cement suggests the culprit is ...

Scientists published peer-reviewed research Wednesday that found the Chicago Rat Hole, a rodent imprint in a residential ...

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

In a video viewed by 6.1 million people, an orange cat has a bizarre encounter with some wildlife. It's a chipmunk, and it's a nail-biter because, obviously, a chipmunk is a prey item of a cat, right?

Voles? Moles? Groundhogs? Learn how to identify the animals digging holes in your yard and protect your garden from further damage.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

As autumn arrives, I find myself returning to botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer’s line in “Gathering Moss,” where she describes ecological succession as “a tale of the interwoven fates of mosses, fungi, ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a supermassive ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in ...