You’re wading in a pond in the Amazon Rainforest when something slimy brushes against your leg. Then you feel another one.

There are at least three species of electric eels (Electrophorus spp.), not just one as previously believed. Two new species have recently been described with São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP's ...

A team of researchers from Università di Firenze, the University of South Florida, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University has found an incidence of a quasicrystal formed during an ...

In the lab, researchers regularly use electricity to deposit medicine, DNA, bacteria or other substances into cells. This process is known as electroporation, and it works by creating temporary ...

A crocodile locks its jaws around an electric eel, confident in one of the strongest bites in nature, and then something goes very wrong for the predator. What happens next reveals exactly why this ...