Your first thought may be of a rainforest, but here’s a cool science fact for you: We can thank plant-based marine organisms ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Artwork created by a first-grader in Andover is helping to teach the public about climate science. Auggie Mulligan, a young ...

I did my very first presentation when I was 15 years old. It was about the Solar System at the time when Pluto had yet to be "pluto-ed". Because I was such an astronomy enthusiast back then, I also ...

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Biologist Maureen Berg found this nudibranch while tide pooling in California. Inverse card story editor JoAnna Wendel found this tiny centipede under a log in Oregon.

Most cattle roam their pastures peeing with abandon, but scientists have now trained calves to use a special latrine called MooLoo. After just 10 days of lessons, many of the calves used MooLoo 77 ...