Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?

Taking in seawater while filtering out dense salts lets unicellular phytoplankton migrate tens of meters vertically toward sunnier seas.

The annual Small World photomicrography competition, now in its 50th year, puts life’s smallest details under the microscope.

Robin George Andrews specializes in covering Earth, space and planetary sciences. He has a Ph.D. in volcanology and is the author of two nonfiction books, Super Volcanoes and How to Kill an Asteroid.

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.

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Human sniffs last between one and three seconds. During that time, chemicals enter the nose and allow us to perceive the smells around us. But whether humans can perceive odor changes shorter than the ...

Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.