In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
Critics had plenty of reasons for wanting to disqualify women from spaceflight in its early stages—but none of them stuck.
A remote part of the Indian Ocean has become, by chance, one of the best-mapped parts of the underwater world.
He has no evidence. He’ll successfully mislead people anyway.
Cassini has captured unprecedented views of the oddly shaped Pan during the spacecraft’s final weeks.
A father-son team is working on a project in the Siberian Arctic called Pleistocene Park, where resurrected woolly mammoths will fight climate change.
Some ate woolly rhinos; some were vegetarians.
Even before they grew strong legs, their eyes surged in size.
Exploring the galaxy will only give our problems more room to expand.
The event has around 21 stated goals.
The psychological roots of liberals’ Trump depression—and what comes next
Florida has already pulled panthers back from the brink of extinction—but to keep them alive, people will have to be comfortable with one showing up on their back porch.
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
Three researchers describe their findings in NASA’s study of identical twin brothers, one in space and one on Earth.
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
When I first contacted Nikolai Formozov about his paper on a 30,000-year-old squirrel originally found by Gulag prisoners, which…
“We should be very thankful to those unnamed prisoners who saved those carcasses.”