On a spring morning, a search for a specific species of fern leads to a discussion on ancient plant history, vascular beauty ...

He decides to poison them with the seeds of the pong-pong tree’s fruit rather than face ... a type of cardiac glycoside that attacks a pump in the heart that controls sodium and potassium ...

The Everglades' eclectic alligators are surprisingly diverse builders, bodyguards, commuters, and health-bringing engineers.

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Water service has been interrupted for some in a Western North Carolina town after Thursday night's storms damaged a water ...

Darlin Tillery is a Newsweek reporter specializing in Life and Trends ... it's amazing. Then bought a pump with hose that goes into a soap bottle under the sink to fill in the old sprayer hole ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a study ...

It was a morning in early April and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then ...

Plus: Nothing teases a new CMF smartphone, Specialized’s new mountain ebike starts at $8,000, and Teenage Engineering’s big ...

Tree rings prove short- and long-term drought are a natural part of life in the arid Southwest ... will come from surface water in reservoirs and how much groundwater to pump around metro Phoenix.

South of Midnight is a gorgeous, empathetic celebration of America's deep South, even if the adventure game under that ...