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A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.

Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.

Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.

The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.

Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.

A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.

Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.

Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.

"Superhabitable" planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.

Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.

This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.

Like sneaking veggies into dessert, these board games teach STEM, strategy, and executive functions through the joys of play.

Trees store carbon dioxide, have a cooling effect in cities, and reduce flood risks.

The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.

“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.

Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.

The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?

Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.

It’s all about salesmanship.

Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people's imaginations for centuries.

Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.

Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.

The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.

Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.

Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.