He said, "bye." Ammon Shea's new book (Perigee/Penguin 2010) is called The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everybody Uses But No One Reads. Our illustrations come from the magical pen ...

Flowers have long inspired artists, but could they be artists themselves? A new Saatchi Gallery exhibition explores their ...

Their study analyzed three groups of trees over the last two decades. Scientists make astonishing discovery about how trees have memories — here's the one that helps them survive first appeared on The ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of 'life-like' synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms. Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials ...

Peat bogs sequester a huge amount of carbon dioxide. But as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, they're under threat.

A perfectly cooked fillet steak is arguably the epitome of good eating. Its humbler cousin, the pack of minced beef, is one ...

Longevity salads are all over TikTok, but do they work? Here, an RD weighs in on the benefits and shares a recipe for ...

There is science and art in putting these little-more-than seedlings in the ground. And now’s the time to act, before they — and their prices — grow ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and ...