Solar panels were installed at the world’s most remote post office, and 445 pairs of penguins decided to stay outside and ...

Stand in the middle of Abu Dhabi’s western desert on a July afternoon and the ground can climb past 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Nothing lingers in the open for long. But step into the strip of shade ...

Along the Magdalena River in Colombia, something enormous has been happening in plain sight. A population of animals has been spreading through wetlands and tributaries for decades, growing faster ...

Deep in Ecuador's Waorani territory, scientists discovered a 20-foot, 1,100-pound snake that turned out to be an entirely new ...

Picture a structure taller than the Eiffel Tower, floating freely in open ocean 43 miles from the nearest coastline. No seabed anchor holds it upright in the way you’d expect. It rides the swell, ...

From high above Antarctica, a satellite was scanning a sheet of blinding white ice. Then it caught something that did not ...

Picture a farmer in Kenya waking to find a whole season of crops flattened overnight. The culprit was not a storm or a thief, but the largest animal on land. A single elephant can erase a family’s ...

Picture the most famous prison in America, alone on a rock in San Francisco Bay. Cold water surrounds it, and the mainland glitters just over a mile away. For most of its life, every light on this ...

Divers surveying 69 offshore wind turbines off Taiwan found 86 fish species living on the steel foundations — none had ever ...

Honey has sweetened food and dressed wounds for thousands of years. But a research team has now taken it somewhere unexpected: into a bioreactor holding living human skin cells, where they exposed ...

Africa is splitting in two. Scientists just found the crust beneath Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than anyone knew, and a new ...

School buses are trading diesel for heavy-duty batteries. They are quieter, cleaner, and really efficient. But these yellow giants are no longer just delivering kids. They have another capability.