The industry that fights bed bugs is growing, but the only real winners are the pests themselves.

Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together.

Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

Inside the world of competitive fireworks.

We’re totally unprepared for what’s to come.

“It’s basically bankruptcy for profit.”

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

Residents have lived near more than 100 massive petroleum storage tanks for decades, never really knowing if they’re breathing in dangerous chemicals. Now they’re fighting to find out.

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

Last year’s first-ever fatal shark attack jolted Mainers into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the state’s shores—and that there’s plenty about them we don’t know.

“It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else.”

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.

The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political: It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species highlights the growing scale of a black market in the thorny plants.

Droplets v. aerosols.

On fungi.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.