Nature

Seasonal affective disorder can occur in both winter and summer. Here's why it happens, and how you might treat it.

When you think of an amphibian, the first thing to jump to mind is probably a springy frog or a salamander or maybe a giant cane toad. But some newly...

Several of New Jersey's leading environmental groups urged the Murphy administration not to consider the recent discovery of four dead whales on the Jersey shore since December as grounds to...

Dark matter is the invisible and largely intangible substance that researchers suggest makes up about

Time travel might seem like nothing more than science fiction, but scientists actually say that isn’t the case at all. Time travel could actually be possible with wormholes and other...

A new year means resolutions, a fresh calendar, and 365 days of skygazing ahead of us. While January’s lack of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere can be a bit depressing,...

Twenty-eight years ago, Elaine Ostrander set out to map dog genomes. The genetics researcher wanted to understand why dogs behave how they do and what in their genes might determine...

Mangrove forests on Pohnpei are archives of sea-level change. Credit: Juliet Sefton, Author provided Sea levels in Micronesia rose much faster over the past 5,000 years than previously thought, according...

ONE DAY in the late 1980s, Bruce Menge was wandering the aisles of a grocery store, thinking over a particular problem he was having with plankton. A professor of marine biology...

the Orion spacecraft made its grand entrance back on Earth after an unofficial time of 25 days 10 hours 54 minutes 50 seconds in space. It covered 1.4 million miles...