A glacier’s edge can be a dangerous place to do research. This team is using robots and sound samples to monitor the melting ice.

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

A video shown on Capitol Hill on September 9 reportedly shows an American hellfire missile attacking and simply bouncing off a UAP (the military term for a UFO). When videos like this come out, ...

When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

Across their 10,000 species, sea slugs sport striking colors, external gills, and even the ability to regrow a body from a ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate unusual scientific research—this year including lizard pizza preferences and fingernail growth.

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Microbes make up about 99% of all species, but they’re not part of any global conservation plans. One group is trying to ...

A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting ...

Last week, astronaut James Lovell died at the age of 97. In April of 1970, he was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which launched with three astronauts en route to the moon. While in space, ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...