A no-mow patch helps caterpillars live long enough to turn into butterflies and moths Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing. Letting some part of a yard go ...

A survey of college students reported many are comfortable calling emergency services for an overdose, but fewer know how to intervene with naloxone.

Rakus the orangutan appeared to be treating a cut to his face with a plant that’s also used in traditional human medicine.

Researchers have created a visual encyclopedia of the different expressions that belugas ( Delphinapterus leucas) in captivity seem to make with their highly mobile “melon,” a squishy deposit of fat ...

The detection of cool plasma before the tiny outbursts on the sun is helping researchers make connections between campfire flares and other solar eruptions.

Ultrathin goldene sheets could reduce the amount of gold needed for electronics and certain chemical reactions.

Land managers in the western United States are using potential operational delineations, or PODS, to prepare for — and take advantage of — wildfires.

Ocean warming enhances hurricane activity, bleaches coral reefs and melts Antarctic sea ice. That warming has been off the charts for the past year.

Giant hail that pummeled northeast Spain in August 2022 could not have formed without climate change, computer simulations suggest.

By training beekeepers, biologist Ximena Velez-Liendo is helping rural agricultural communities of southern Bolivia coexist with Andean bears.

Over time, bone marrow stem cells develop key genetic errors and pass them on to immune cells. This may increase the risk of developing heart disease.

Should people be worried? Pasteurization and the H5N1 virus’s route to infection suggests risks to people remains low.