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Science-based weather forecasting dates back some 150 years, and we've grown used to detailed, daily predictions of temperatures, precipitation, winds,…

Cephalopods, like octopus and squid, are the natural world’s masters of camouflage. They can change not only the color, but also the texture of their…

It’s known as the deep biosphere, or the dark energy biosphere. What is it? Microbes - bacteria, archaea, even fungi - living not at the bottom of the…

There are scientists studying how spending time in nature restores us physically and mentally.A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah noticed…

Imagine being diagnosed with a debilitating or deadly disease, only to be cured by doctors able to alter your very DNA. It sounds like science fiction,…

Conservation biologist Austin Gallagher wants to know how much stress coyotes on Cape Cod are feeling, and whether it's worse when they're in densely…

Scientists aid search for lost submarine: Argentina lost contact with one of its military submarines in mid-November, and there’s been an international…

Stories about our origins exert a powerful draw. Who doesn’t want to know where he or she has come from? Who and what came before? For evolutionary…

Since August, several thousand Native Americans have been camping in the path of a proposed oil pipeline in North Dakota. They are concerned that the…

As if you need one more reason to hate household dust, science increasingly indicates it could be a hazard to your health. A recent review of research,…