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Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.
Should you blast the A/C even when you're not at home?
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
"When you see me, weep." When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon's private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Here's what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?
An effect called the "urban heat island" means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.