This is the San José. In their new study, a team of archaeologists, historians, and naval officers pieced together the ...

Climate change, plastic pollution, disappearing ecosystems, and industrial overreach are converging into a single, planetary emergency. But, perhaps the biggest threat of all is one that’s rarely ...

Scientists have built a battery powered by yogurt microbes that dissolves after use. In the action-packed world of Mission: ...

The problem is we don’t really know what the whales are saying.

If you could sit perfectly still in a patch of space far from any stars, planets, or particles — utter emptiness — you might ...

High Court Justice Victoria Sharp must have had a very strange day. While reviewing case citations presented by lawyers, she realized something shocking: many of them simply didn’t exist.

Imagine discovering a set of footprints on a remote beach, only to later find an identical set thousands of miles away. This ...

Petro Kotzé is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. She writes about water, conservation ...

The Oyster Eater by James Ensor (1883). Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but ...

As wild oyster stocks dwindled, large oyster farms developed in cities like New York in the 19th century. Initially ...

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short ...

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...