Scientists have created a new kind of living robot that can build a simple nervous system, then use it to move in more complex ways. The research team at Tufts University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute ...

The tropical Pacific is starting to look restless again, and forecasters are paying close attention. El Niño, a recurring ocean pattern tied to floods, droughts, and heat, appears increasingly likely ...

A new study suggests many coastal risk assessments have been starting from the wrong baseline. Researchers found measured sea level along shorelines is on average about 10.6 inches (0.27 meters) ...

In a drawer at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, scientists found what amounts to a frozen moment of ancient violence. A neck vertebra from a long-necked marine reptile held a broken tooth ...

If you’ve ever walked a field at sunrise and found fresh furrows where neat rows used to be, you know how fast wild boars can turn a season’s work into cleanup. They show up quietly, root like ...

Mars may look like a quiet desert planet, but new lab work suggests its dust can be surprisingly hostile to Earth life, even to creatures famous for surviving the impossible. In a study using two ...

After a harvest, rice mills and palm oil plants are left with mountains of husk and hard shells, and too much of it still ends up wasted. A new study from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia suggests ...

What did the first major extinction of animal life look like, back when complex creatures were still new to the planet? A new fossil analysis suggests it was not a slow fade, but a sharp crash that ...

If you have ever dropped your car keys on the little table by the front door and called it a day, you are not alone. But as keyless cars become the norm, that everyday habit has started to look like a ...

Beachgoers on Pirate’s Beach on Galveston Island, Texas, got a shock on March 7, 2026, when a sea turtle washed ashore looking like it had grown a coat of green fur. The animal was an adult female ...

If you have ever tried to hide a Wi-Fi router behind a houseplant, you get the basic idea. Ukrainian officials say Russian forces are hiding communication antennas inside fake “trees” so Ukrainian ...

NOAA researchers working in the Mariana Islands have measured a colossal stony coral inside the crater of an underwater volcano, and it may be more than 2,000 years old. Built by colonies of Porites ...