The largest population of these animals—the only critically endangered chimp subspecies—sits in a region riddled with bauxite mines
A survey on American fears by Chapman University sociologists has produced some surprisingly frightful results
Come-hither blue haloes are just one of the effects employed by nature’s first nanotechnologists
Researchers have long sought control over the weather, but have yet to find a realistic way to master it
For a long time, Japanese anthropologists and officials tried to bury the Ainu. It didn't work
One team is working with Inuvialuit elders to come up with a renewable energy terminology—and maybe revive a dying language
Bloodstain pattern analysis is used in murder investigations - analysts draw on chemistry, mathematics and physics to determine the area of origin
A scientist and admired cartoonist explore how today’s research is becoming tomorrow’s innovations in a new book
Future Mars colonists may want to form their own legal system. What would stop them?
And other surprising facts about how we speak to infants
An epic natural disaster restored the forest of an earlier America
When the going gets tough, creative researchers turn to plastic lizard protectors, monkey loofahs and deer vagina trackers
Reviving a long-dead Galapagos tortoise will take Jurassic Park-esque tactics—but have humans already intervened too much?
The detonation site is only open to civilians twice a year
Mike deRoos and Michi Main build beautiful models from the remains of Pacific sea creatures
A new book documents the triumphs and challenges of more than 10,000 women who worked behind the scenes of wartime intelligence
A new book considers how sophisticated tracking technology and the data it collects can improve conservation strategies
Why does this pungent delicacy give some the munchies, but send others reeling to the toilet?
Blind since he was very young, Daniel Kish is the world's foremost proponent of using vocal clicks to navigate
As the urgency of climate change becomes tangible to those in the Arctic, federal funds are growing harder to come by
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