Videos

Ladybird beetle wings fold themselves into a tidy package after flight, and now scientists understand how it works.

This palm-size parrot uses a touch of wing to leap from branch to branch so it can save energy as it looks for dinner or a mate.

After learning how the waterway transports a billion tons of sediment into the sea each year, scientists built a tool that may help predict the inundations that impact some 80 million people.

The release of 400 alewife herring marks a significant milestone in a broader river cleanup effort.

See how a giant Larvacean’s intricate mucus house, constructed for filter feeding, contributes to oceanic carbon cycling.

Mastodon bones and shattered stones suggest humans were migrating to the Americas some 100,000 years earlier than currently thought. Nature Video explores this controversial find.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 26, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

Thousands congregated in the nation's capital and other cities in the U.S. and around the world to support scientific research and protest Trump administration–proposed budget cuts. Scientific American spoke with researchers, students and fact-loving activists at the New York City and D.C. marches.

Hypervelocity stars, and the black holes that launch them, whip through space at millions of miles per hour.

A new technique lets 3D printers create objects made of glass, which has optical and material advantages over traditional polymer.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 19, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

This badger built itself a “refrigerator” in the desert to stash its food windfall.

Flitting among the flowers can be messy, sticky work.

Our understanding of how insects fly didn’t explain how mosquitoes managed to stay on the wing. It took eight slow-motion cameras to help researchers reveal how mosquito wing beats shape the air to give the insect extra lift.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 29, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.