Science

Lichens growing on gravestones appear immune to aging. What does their life cycle teach us about death?

Rocky algal rims offer new evidence of Croatia’s seismic past.

When it comes to marketing food, scent can be as important as flavor.

The world's oldest known cheese holds the key to kefir's mysterious origins.

The asteroid that exploded over Luzon was not a threat—but it was a victory for our planetary defense systems.

Bull’s blood isn’t poisonous; so why did people think it was for centuries?

When nature’s rarest color shows up in food, it elicits a range of reactions.

The International Space Station is the first permanent human settlement in space—and the perfect setting to understand how our species might create culture off-planet.

The ichnofossil, or trace fossil, is more than 150,000 years old.

An experimental archaeology park lets visitors get a whiff of the island's aromatic past.

An urban explorer ventured deep below downtown in search of Schieks Cave. What he found changed science.

Researchers hauled bins of fish carcasses through bear country to learn how salmon affects plants and pollinators.