Science

Poaching puts local fishers at risk, and two scientists are helping to brainstorm solutions.

It's complicated.

Meet the generally harmless translucent residents of Thoreau's favorite giant puddle.

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And that's bad news for the snails that produced them.

Researchers link a wet period in Tuscany's past with a rise in tales of water-related works of amazement.

The Brood X bonanza is almost here, and ecologists will have a lot of work—and bugs—on their hands.

Here’s why it’s really, really hard to count how many of the apex predators once stalked Earth’s surface.

Remains hidden with this Swedish “founding father” likely belonged to his grandson, but questions linger.

Volcanologists are doing detective work to understand what makes St. Vincent's La Soufrière go off.

The Back River remains visually distinct from its tributary, the Hayes River, for several miles after their confluence.

Cadavers from marginalized communities have been co-opted for collections since the 1700s.

When it comes to battling the climate-damaging gas in belches, a little of the macroalgae goes a long way.

A spatter cone and runny lava give this eruption its classic look, and make it relatively approachable.

There's no punchline, this massive geological structure in Greenland just probably isn't a crater.

In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case.

As well as smaller bergs that can be more dangerous to ships.