The heavy casualties of the Black Death gave plants free rein to retake landscapes across Europe, but their return to abandoned lands didn’t exactly do wonders for their diversity. After widespread “rewilding” — in which nature is…

Apocalyptic thinking, once associated mainly with fringe voices, is edging into mainstream…

Hundreds of glass fragments found in Brazil are traces of an ancient impact that scattered them millions of years ago, scientists have found.
These blobs of material represent spray from melted rock that was liquefied in the impact, then…

In midlife, women are told to expect disruption. Sleep may become lighter, nights can feel warmer, and energy harder to come by. Hormones shift, and the body adjusts. But for a large number of women, something else is happening as well: Their…

Astronauts may soon be eating homegrown chickpeas on the moon, scientists say, after they…

A fire ant nest has been spotted at one of Australia’s most iconic World Heritage…

Toxic “forever chemicals” can accumulate in honeybee colonies and transfer to their honey,…

The sudden loss of nearly half of Europe’s population between 1347 and 1353 due to the

The heavy casualties of the Black Death gave plants free rein to retake landscapes across Europe, but their return to abandoned lands didn’t exactly do wonders for their diversity. After widespread “rewilding” — in which nature is…
For generations of kids growing up in cold climates, licking a frozen lamppost has been a dare, a joke, or a mistake waiting to happen. The scene is famously immortalized in the holiday movie A Christmas Story, when a boy’s tongue gets stuck to…