By Jim Robbins Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to...

By Franz Lidz Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries....

By Dennis Overbye In a stunning scientific and technological feat, a group of astronomers said last Thursday that it had managed to take...

By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what chimpanzees will do for a snack. In Congolese rainforests, the apes have been known to poke a hole...

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From...

By Asher Elbein A dog-size reptile slipped through fern-choked forests 237 million years ago in what is today Paraíso do Sul, Brazil. The...

By Alan Yuhas East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall...

By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, they typically thank family and colleagues, maybe...