Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats ...

You’ve heard of the beard of bees — well, I’m wearing a full balaclava of them. They’re enveloping me so thickly I look like a sideshow apiarist. I swipe my palms across my face and they collect ...

Humans live in a world abundant in salt, but this everyday seasoning is a luxury for wild herbivores, and it's far from clear ...

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley has publicly stated that the TV spinoff series will not feature a crossover with Predator, ...

The Goliath birdeater ( Theraphosa blondi) is the world’s largest spider, with a leg span up to 30 cm (12 in). Its hairy, ...

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam lies a hidden world untouched for millions of years—where clouds form underground, rainforests ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

Each second of filmmaker Daniel Raven-Ellison's short film represents one percent of the Earth's surface. Only eight seconds show intact forest. A wetland in the U.K., seen from above. The short film ...

As the end of 2025 approaches, regular folk take stock of the past year, and maybe ponder their New Year’s resolutions. Climate scientists, on the other hand, have been busy parsing mountains of data ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...