Science

Investigating a renowned scientist's iconic digit.

Beavers can reshape the North American ecosystem—if we let them.

Scientists know people were in Yukon 24,000 years ago. But what were they doing there?

A wildlife ecologist specializing in large carnivores unfolds a mystery for listeners.

A conservation biologist in Argentina once hosted one of the animals in her living room, but finding them in the wild has proven far more difficult.

For more than a decade, hot mud has oozed across thousands of acres, displacing entire villages.

Some of Borneo's pitcher plants took insects off the menu in favor of mammal droppings. It's an evolutionary triumph.

Examining whether a ruler slipped through the cracks of a tumultuous century.

How to appreciate ice without getting all that cold, with the Atlas Obscura Places Team.

This year, we met creatures (and other living things) great and small, from the world’s largest organism to microscopic parasites.

From engineering VR terror to tracking tipsy monkeys, we love watching researchers at work.

Striking work by photographer Richard Mosse shows how merging art and technology can cut through dry data.

A curated collection of images shows why this natural phenomenon has fascinated and inspired humans for millennia.

Across the archipelago, scientists and citizens are uniting against the tiny terrors, deploying an arsenal of creative weapons.

The monstrous menace known as Whatcheeria hints that our distant ancestors may have been more like us than we thought.