The start of fall means cooler weather, cozier nights and fantastic reading. Settle into the season with the best books of October, featuring the return of Pulitzer Prize winners, enchanting fantasies...

New high-tech tools let scientists “tag” along with these red-footed seabirds to solve the mystery of how boobies spend their days at sea.

By modeling toxic diatoms and coastal processes, scientists have discovered the degree to which nutrients from Southern California’s densely populated coast affect these blooms.

UNEP sets out 'best-case' scenario of 1.8C for global average temperature rise, but maintains world can still limit, adapt to, and eventually reduce warming to or below 1.5C threshold in future

A sprawling London fresh produce market is producing its own power thanks to record-breaking rooftop solar.

From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture

Long after the lava stopped flowing, enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe

Celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers in Colorado.

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Julien Kimmig’s career began with a surprising abundance of feces. As a PhD student working at a Cambrian site in northern Canada, Kimmig realized that roughly half the fossils in that outcrop were…

Could these colorful fish aid struggling coral? Yes, but not always. Parrotfish play a complex role in reefs — and sometimes may cause harm.

A new study suggests the world’s mangrove forests are expanding.

Darwin Online is the largest Darwin publication/resource in the world— and probably the most comprehensive scholarly website on any historical person. As an active research project, countless new…

"Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31. During an examination, cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent by a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospit...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Coral reefs are going through a significant transition as the climate warms. In our lifetime, we are witnessing their rapid decline caused by the pressures of bleaching events, disease outbreaks, ocea...

Coral reefs are going through a significant transition as the climate warms. In our lifetime, we are witnessing their rapid decline caused by the pressures of bleaching events, disease outbreaks, ocea...

Learning about climate change? Here's a comic for kids about what it is and how it's affecting the planet — as explained by kids who are experiencing it. And find out how to print this comic at home!

Tourism and fishing associations in Shetland have voiced alarm and concern about the plans, while campaigners condemn space companies as “litter louts".