When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

Mark Gurarie is a writer covering health topics, technology, music, books, and culture. He also teaches health science and research writing at George Washington University's School of Medical and ...

These ‘bubble bullets’ are louder than an underwater gunshot and hotter than lava. The immense heat and pressure also produce ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...