Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

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What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Human activities such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization are increasingly encroaching on the habitats of great apes.

Busting myths; how a drop of water changed a girl’s life; a tribe’s respect for fishes; and more: picks from columnist.

Top alien-hunting astronomers at the University of Cambridge say they’re now 99.7% confident they’ve spotted the best-ever-seen signal of biological activity – and say the planet may be ...

The Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum ... the Sun but at space weather around the Earth. Our planet is surrounded by radiation regions known as the ...

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper’s new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator ...

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In this heartfelt wildlife documentary, a volunteer conservationist and an endangered critter develop a parent-child connection. By Jeannette Catsoulis The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the ...