Scientists are warning that great white sharks may be quietly establishing a breeding population in the Mediterranean, based on a new analysis of 20th and 21st century records that reveals emerging ...

Skip the roses this Valentine’s Day, and grab your binoculars and a field guide for science, with this weekend's Great Backyard Bird Count.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an international initiative founded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National ...

The theory of one of the pioneers of modern medicine that is still used today and that saved millions of lives during the ...

I explain the real science that makes famous magic illusions work.

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants ...

This week, researchers reported on a juvenile great white shark caught by fishermen in Spanish Mediterranean waters. China's ...

Discover some interesting facts about bonobos, the peaceful and endangered great apes found only in the Congo rainforest.

Hidden high in California’s White Mountains, a solitary bristlecone pine has survived nearly 5,000 years. Guarded in secrecy, ...

It’s a fair question, since Alfred Tennyson is typically associated with the sort of sonorous, ringing verse you’d expect ...

New research maps genetic “hotspots” for hemochromatosis, revealing uneven risk and possible underdiagnosis across the UK and Ireland.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is run by The Cornell Lab, the National Audubon Society, and Birds Canada, Zoo Atlanta officials add.