Alexandra Pattillo is a freelance journalist. She has written for publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The BBC, Outside, The Daily Beast, CNN, ...

This marks only the second ice age amphibian found in North America—and it gives researchers vital information abot the ...

This billionaire-backed fund is dedicating $200 million to preserve animals and even plants that are facing extinction around ...

Charles Darwin predicted in 1875 that some members of the Saxifraga genus could be carnivorous—now scientists have finally ...

Antarctica’s Blood Falls looks exactly like what the feature’s name suggests. But despite appearing to bleed out for millions ...

Psilocybin has shown potential to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other psychiatric illnesses. Carhart-Harris says that there was an “intuition” that the psychedelic could break ...

An errant piece of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon, and astronomers are eagerly awaiting the chance to ...

Wormholes are one way that physicists have imagined traveling into the past. But if something gets there, is it physically possible to change anything?

A rare fossil find shows a tooth embedded an ichthyosaur’s vertebra, where it was likely left when a giant pliosaurid chomped ...

The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely ...

A unique landform is vital for calibrating NASA’s satellites, but it’s likely sitting atop a vast deposit of this heavy metal ...

These proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized by scientists across disciplines ...