Over the last century and a half, scientists have built a strong case for the roots and impacts of human-caused climate change.
Author and environmental scientist Jessica Hernandez discusses Indigenous displacement, conservation’s failures and how to improve the field.
Ice submerged in liquid water can melt into three different shapes, depending on the water’s temperature.
When people see imaginary faces in everyday objects, those faces are more likely to be perceived as male, a new study shows.
The elusive goal of using animal organs for transplants could be within reach, but it’s too soon to tell.
Estimating how many tree species are on Earth is an important step for forest conservation and protecting biodiversity.
Among 10,000 women in Malawi, those who chewed xylitol gum daily had fewer preterm births compared with women who didn’t chew the gum.
Cameras aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe managed to peer through Venus’ thick clouds to photograph the planet’s surface.
In 1972, researchers were studying whether hyperbaric chambers could help reverse senility. Today, science is still piecing together clues.
Fish scale–filled pellets found by two pterosaurs are the first fossil evidence the flying reptiles regurgitated undigestible food, like some modern birds.
DNA from a 6th century boy’s tooth reveals signs of the earliest known Haemophilus influenzae type b infection, shedding light on the pathogen’s history.
Slow-moving sponges, living deep in the Arctic Ocean where no currents deliver food, scavenge a carpet of long-dead critters.
Computer simulations suggest that matter that behaves like a mash-up of solid and liquid could explain oddities of Earth’s center.
A respiratory infection that spread to air sacs in the vertebrae of a 150-million-year-old sauropod likely led to now-fossilized bone lesions.
Gravitational kicks from other planets and stars can send giant worlds into orbits that bring them close to their suns.
Archaeological finds in an ancient French rock-shelter suggest migrations to the continent started long before Neandertals died out.
