Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which look like corkscrews, and Brazil has a tree so huge it looks like a lush, ...

With the internet at our fingertips, it’s easy to think that learning factual information is a bootless errand. But as long as we uncover something new, no time is wasted. Finding out little tidbits ...

Climate change. Habitat loss. The increasing spread of invasive species. These are just a few impacts of human activity — and to the animals on the front lines, even the slightest shift can feel like ...

It’s a mite soon to start grieving, but scientists now project that life on Earth will probably end in about a billion years. A Monday in February, 1,000,002,025, would be my guess. On that ...

“Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don’t believe in gravity.” How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing it? To a certain extent, we can see and feel it ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world. The following is an excerpt from The Whispers of Rock: The ...