Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.

The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.

Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...

The silica dust rule is on pause after a federal appeals court repeatedly delayed enforcement on this long-awaited safety measure.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for…

Alt: a man in a brown shirt starts trying to say something but ends up being silent with his hand over his mouth

The lighthouse appeared overnight. Painted on a wall tucked away in a quiet Marseille street, its beam aligned perfectly with the real-life shadow of a metal post on the pavement.

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly how the earliest known bird could fly.

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have made a perfect snack for the crocodiles and trout-sized whitebait that crui...

Weekly Holler from the Hollers There is a lot going on in the federal government with regulations being repealed, policies revoked, protections eliminated