Climate change made 2024 the hottest year on record. The heat was deadly
Over and over, the numbers tell the same story: 2024 was Earth’s hottest year on…
Meet a scientist tracking cactus poaching in the Atacama Desert
Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on…
Climate stress may undermine male spiders’ romantic gift giving
Courtship dazzle in spiders can lose some zing in uncertain climates. Males in places with…
A spacecraft duo will fly in formation to create artificial solar eclipses
A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit.…
Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers
Ancient North Americans are looking more and more like experienced mammoth killers. Archaeologists have long…
Climate change is driving trees away from crucial fungi
More than one-third of the world’s tree species, from tropical magnolias to mountainous pines, are…
New videos reveal the hidden lives of Andean bears
Camera collar footage is unveiling the secret lives of Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus), South America’s only…
Here’s how long it would take 100 worms to eat the plastic in one face mask
Insects rank high among humankind’s go-to creatures for strangeness: Think movie monster inspirations or extreme…
Starchy nanofibers shatter the record for world’s thinnest pasta
The world record for the thinnest pasta has been shattered, though the new, narrow noodles…
Ethiopian wolves are the first large carnivores found to slurp nectar
Some wolves have a taste for dessert. In the highlands of Ethiopia, carnivorous Ethiopian wolves…