The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate unusual scientific research—this year including lizard pizza preferences and fingernail growth.

A glacier’s edge can be a dangerous place to do research. This team is using robots and sound samples to monitor the melting ice.

A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

Time Genius” co-host Mangesh Hattikudur put one lucky listener to the test with food science trivia. Plus, talkative African ...

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

Across their 10,000 species, sea slugs sport striking colors, external gills, and even the ability to regrow a body from a ...

A video shown on Capitol Hill on September 9 reportedly shows an American hellfire missile attacking and simply bouncing off a UAP (the military term for a UFO). When videos like this come out, ...

Microbes make up about 99% of all species, but they’re not part of any global conservation plans. One group is trying to ...