Science

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The…

In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion…

H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors,…

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese,…

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.” That’s a recently…

As summer temperatures soar, a dip can seem like a great way to cool off. But it can be hard…

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed.…

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star…

Vanilla plants could have a future that’s not so sweet. Wild relatives of the vanilla plant — which could be…

Vaccines are facing new challenges from an unexpected quarter: the people who set vaccine policy for the United States. Many…