One in three North American firefly species faces extinction, and a surprising culprit is lurking right outside your front ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

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When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

On July 9, 2015, a dead raccoon appeared on a Toronto sidewalk and, for reasons no one fully understood, four men from a ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

In the summer of 2020, my husband, Ryan, and I bought a house in Portland, Ore., with a sizable backyard containing little ...

Philip Hamilton of Putney appeared on NBC5 In Depth to discuss his decades of work studying critically endangered North ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

A megalodon tooth found 2 miles down in the Pacific, sitting exactly where it fell millions of years ago, is rewriting what ...

On the Tuesday, June 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: In “The God Test,” Robert Wright argues that the real challenge of AI isn’t just building smarter machines—it’s deciding whether we can ...

We tend to think that animals avoid inbreeding at all costs, but scientific studies contradict that assumption ...