Nature and Environment

Scientists have baptized a newly-discovered sea bug as "Bathynomus vaderi" in honor of Darth Vader. I... don't see it.

Although cute, cats are skilled hunters and can be deadly to other animals.

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies the Yellowstone Caldera, one of Earth’s largest supervolcanoes. Scientists have now pinpointed the likely site of its next eruption.

It could be months before officials determine an official cause of the fires, though there are clues that indicate what investigators are looking into.

“This has the potential to be (...) the costliest wildfire disaster in American history,” a UCLA researcher said.

During the summer, local residents discovered a specimen in the Batagaika crater, known as the “gateway to the underworld.”

Filling the Three Gorges Dam would slightly shift Earth’s axis, increasing the length of the day by 0.06 microseconds.

We knew that AI models could hallucinate and make mistakes, but there’s a big problem when those errors could lead to fatal consequences.

After five years, the murder hornets' reign of terror is officially over. Well, in the U.S., at least.

Many tech companies are focused on reducing water usage to cool their data center equipment.

The world is changing, and the oceans are changing with it. For some species, these changes are troubling.

Hidden in the mountains of Indonesia, this species continues to survive extinction.