A intrepid researcher faces steep odds as she attempts to study nutcrackers in the Cascade Mountains. But the birds—and the singular trees they help sustain—are too important for her not to persist.

Can learning about animals we call pests help us accept them?

Scientists are hacking mosquitoes’ biology in a battle against these disease-carrying pests

An all-hands-on-deck research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.

For generations, these hitchhikers have been recording details about their hosts and their ocean home.

These scurrying, soaring, and slithering wonders are teaching scientists how our own bodies work – and how to fix them.

A vaguely scientific investigation.

Why scientists are bringing these rodents back to the streams where they once lived

How engineers use forces and motion to design extreme roller coasters

You might be surprised to learn who nature’s most efficient hunters are

Zeray Alemseged discovers bones from the dawn of humanity more than 3 million years ago

Cute pets take social media by storm

A scientist challenges the idea that no two snow crystals are identical

At a festival in Norway, artists play instruments made of ice

Snowshoe hares turn white in the winter to blend in with the snow. Can they survive if that snow disappears?

Scientists hike through African forests to track the population of endangered apes

These four animals have some of the world’s most incredible vision

This scientist goes diving to study some of the world’s biggest fish

Scientists are on the hunt for the true identity of mysterious beasts

Biologist Lauren Esposito searches for spiders and scorpions around the world

How a designer in England is giving chewed-up gum a new purpose

5 of the most fantastic feathered artists

Maybe.

How gooey mucus keeps animals alive

Sinkholes are engulfing buildings, roads, and even people. Can scientists learn how to predict them?

Space simulations are teaching scientists what it will take to live on the Red Planet

Justin Beckerman built his own one-man submarine to explore a nearby lake

Venomous animals produce some of the deadliest poisons on the planet. They’re also saving people’s lives.

Should scientists bring extinct species back to life?

In the 1930s, severe dust storms whipped across the Great Plains. Could increasing drought bring on another Dust Bowl?

As we use up Earth’s supply of minerals that are crucial to our lives, the race is on to extract them from space

Goodbye, electrodes; hello, bright lights.

The earliest substance ever.

Starting this fall, NASA will begin flying Global Hawk UAVs over the tops of swirling hurricanes and on data-gathering missions to where these storms get their start.

How the choices we make today will change the world

How information makes the world a bigger place

Staring into the brains of fruit flies could clarify the connection between genes and behaviors

Capturing the motion of macromolecules will help researchers make better HIV drugs

Pegasus Global Holdings is building a full-size city to be populated by... no one.