This smell of rain is a real physical thing that can be explained by science. In Ireland, where rain is a regular feature of ...

PBS NC helps your community explore new worlds and ideas through programs that educate, inform and inspire. Your ...

By Lyle Lewis The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness was part of the original class of lands designated under the United States’ 1964 Wilderness Act: 1.3 million acres, or about 526,000 hectares, of steep ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Metamorphosis leads to a wide range of evolutionary outcomes. The dramatic transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly ...

The act of emotional crying is far from random or useless. Instead, it seems to be woven deeply into our social and emotional ...

The excitement around space exploration is back in full force. With NASA’s Artemis missions laying the groundwork for a sustained human presence on the Moon, and films like Project Hail Mary capturing ...

A virus that typically infects marine animals, such as shrimp and fish, has jumped to humans and is causing chronic eye disease in some people, according to a study published in the journal Nature ...