Researchers have found evidence of animals sailing across the oceans on accidental rafts of vegetation, fallen trees, and soil. It’s likely the animals weren’t planning to take a trip. Natural events ...

The Department of the Interior seeks to remove the lesser prairie chicken’s endangered species designation. What would that mean?

How well do we understand the long-term health risks to firefighters? Plus, researchers across the country are breeding ...

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient ...

What does it take to create and maintain one of the largest repositories of botanical information in the world? For starters, it can mean helicopter-ing into remote nooks of the Amazon, hiking through ...

Universe of Art is hosted and produced by Dee Peterschmidt, who also wrote the music. Our show art is illustrated by Abelle ...

Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...

The Leap” is a new podcast series profiling scientists willing to take big risks—personal and professional—to push the ...

On June 17, join Science Friday, Ocean Exploration Trust, and NOAA are hosting this ship-to-shore interaction with the crew of the Nautilus Exploration Program. This year we’ll be visiting the Mariana ...