The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering ...

Analysis of 3,000 incidents in Canada reveals which animal–human activity combos are especially risky. Of note: Elk and ...

A scientist, a jar of pickles and a power strip walk into a room. The punchline involves physics, glowing condiments and a ...

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark ...

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, ...

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the ...

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.