Earth & Life
Elephants appear to call each other by name
The discovery challenges what we thought we knew about animal communication and raises unsettling questions about consciousness in creatures we've long underestimated.
Space Travel
How did a captured German rocket, launched from a New Mexico desert in 1946…
The first photograph of Earth from space wasn't taken by an astronaut or a satellite, but by a camera strapped to a weapon of war, surviving the very machine that carried it skyward.
Earth & Life
Scientists recorded more than 50 days of deep-ocean footage before a goblin shark…
A creature so rare that scientists had to film the ocean floor for weeks just to glimpse it for 20 seconds—and what they saw rewrote everything we thought we knew about where it lives.
Earth & Life
Wood frogs freeze solid every winter — up to 65% of their body water turns to ice…
Scientists still don't understand how wood frogs survive what should be an unsurvivable state—or what lessons their biology might hold for preserving human organs.
Earth & Life
Tropical tree mortality has risen in some long-term records, and scientists…
Tropical forests face a hidden killer: the ordinary thunderstorm is becoming extraordinary, and scientists may have drastically underestimated how much damage it now inflicts.
Earth & Life
We tend to think of the deep ocean as dark and silent, but NOAA research found that…
Most communication on Earth happens in the dark, in a language we're only beginning to understand.
Earth & Life
How does a rodent that weighs 20 kilos and builds mud walls raise a valley's water…
How beaver dams — built by a 20-kilo rodent using teeth and mud — raise valley water tables by close to a metre and turn the soil beneath the forest into a carbon store that outperforms the trees above it.
Earth & Life
Elephants in Mozambique's Gorongosa Park are being born tuskless at rates…
Fifteen years of ivory hunting during Mozambique's civil war left a genetic mark on Gorongosa's elephants that is still visible in their daughters' skulls today — roughly a third of females now born without tusks, a Princeton team traced to two specific genes.
Earth & Life
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and…
The ocean's most powerful waterfall moves in silence, invisible to satellites and hidden beneath one of the planet's most turbulent seas.
Earth & Life
We assume a cat's meow is simply how cats 'talk', but adult cats almost never meow…
Your cat isn't trying to talk to you—it's trained you to respond to a kitten's cry.
Earth & Life
If Earth's 4.5-billion-year history were compressed into a single day, life would…
A cosmic clock that renders four and a half billion years comprehensible—and humanity's entire story almost invisible.
Earth & Life
Every few years the entire humpback population of the South Pacific abandons its…
A whale population spontaneously drops its entire repertoire every few years and collectively adopts an entirely new song from thousands of miles away—a phenomenon that challenges everything we thought we knew about cultural transmission outside humanity.
Earth & Life
Miyawaki forests are marketed as growing ten times faster than nature manages alone
The trendy tree-planting method promises environmental salvation, but scientists say the hype far outpaces what the data actually shows.
Earth & Life
In a cave 18 metres below the surface at Movile in Romania, sealed off from the…
A subterranean ecosystem where toxic fumes sustain life that has evolved in total darkness for millions of years challenges everything we thought we knew about the requirements for survival.
Earth & Life
When elephants play, they rapidly copy one another’s trunk and head movements
The synchronicity suggests something deeper than mere play—a glimpse into how social bonds form through the body rather than the mind.
Earth & Life
Palaeontologists were preparing to leave the Egyptian desert when they noticed…
A chance glimpse of protruding teeth in the Egyptian sand revealed a perfectly preserved skull that rewrites the story of ancient predators—before dogs and cats ever ruled the earth.