Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

For most of the year, Iceberg Alley is gray and cold. The largest city on its shores, St. John’s, is known as “Canada’s Weather Champion.” Among major Canadian cities, the capital of Newfoundland and ...

When a new dinosaur species is announced, we all probably share a similar image of how it was discovered: a team of sweaty paleontologists, meticulously removing layers of dirt to uncover a skeleton.

The crab-eating frog survives by holding its pee (sort of). By retaining urea, the nitrogenous waste compound expelled in urine, this frog prevents water loss via osmosis, which allows it to survive ...

Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...

Around 5,250 BCE a series of volcanic activity rocked Japan’s southernmost island, Kyushu. Known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, the blast was enormous, notching a seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...

Myriad studies focus on human sleep, from mapping circadian rhythms to determining optimal sleep length. But we’re not the only creatures that need some shut-eye. The same is also true even of ...

People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet ...

The memory is fallible. We misremember and forget the events of our lives all of the time. But a small number of individuals seem to have exceptional recall for the mundane details of their personal ...

One of the great things about wildlife photography is how it allows us to bear witness to the whole cycle of life. There’s perhaps no better example of this than the images celebrated in this year’s ...