Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries ...

They spent four months searching for the world’s loneliest person and ended up crossing mountains, forests, and remote islands to meet three people living in extreme solitude. One man had lived alone ...

Guangzhou, China: South China Botanical Garden researchers uncovered the evolutionary history of Burmannia nepalensis, a fully mycoheterotrophic herb endemic to subtropical evergreen broad-leaved ...

On a recent morning in central Vermont, where I live, it was raining, and the wood frogs had just begun to chorus. The sap run from the maple trees has started to dwindle as the branches begin to bud ...

Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations. By Eric Niiler Reporting from ...

The Trump administration will move the headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, it announced Tuesday. In a press release, the Department of Agriculture said ...

I am married to an Italian, have lived in Rome and have travelled widely across the country over the past two decades, both for research as a travel writer and for pleasure. In recent years, it has ...

Selling a property can be a minefield, particularly in today’s stagnant market. First-time buyers are struggling to get deposits together – the portion of first-time buyers under 25 is now only six ...

In northeastern Gabon, the community of Massaha used participatory mapping to document ancestral villages, sacred sites and traditional land use inside a rainforest slated for industrial logging.

Bill Roberts, 78 and disabled, rarely leaves his home. One of his most meaningful sources of interaction comes twice a week, when his favorite Meals on Wheels driver delivers lunch – bonus points if ...