By deciding this ancient plant was worthy of their attention, humans ended up dramatically shaping its evolution
A finely preserved fossil sheds new light on the curious tail of armored dinos
Brain Imaging Gives Insight Into Early Human Minds
How the United States escaped a national tragedy in the 1960s
Racism may not be a disease, exactly. But a growing body of research finds that it has lasting physical and mental effects on its victims
About 18 million years ago, the Caribbean Sea seasonally flooded inland forests, where enormous crocodiles and turtles roamed
After a century of strip mining and deforestation, New Caldonia researchers are working to de-contaminate marine waters
A global disease monitoring network is banking on the idea that healthier wildlife means healthier humans
A collaboration between Smithsonian researchers and the Emberá people of Panama aims to rewrite a fraught narrative
An earthquake in Nepal fills hikers on Everest with fear. Once the tremors subside, however, a new threat begins to loom on the horizon: an avalanche
The planet's rings are coy when it comes to revealing their age, but astronomers are getting closer
What does it really mean to get our brains on the same wavelength?
The same extraordinary properties that make this plant an “ecosystem engineer” also helped save human lives
A new tool aims to bypass governments and put the power of climate action in the people’s hands
Why you and an elephant spend the same amount of time on the john
This still-controversial conservation technique will never be a species' panacea. But it might provide a crucial stop-gap
Also in this episode of <i>Generation Anthropocene</i>: The case of U.S. Navy ships, beached whales and deadly sonar pings
A young couple hiking in a Himalayan valley are caught in the middle of an earthquake that sets off a giant avalanche
Researchers say prehistoric mastodon bones bear human-made markings
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