During an October solar eclipse in 2022, a team of scientists traveled to the Dolomites, a forested mountain range in Italy, ...

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...

Trees are an essential part of any landscape, providing lasting structure and beauty. Discover gorgeous trees that add color and texture to the garden all year long. Learn how to use these trees to ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...

You probably won’t see them, but they’re there. A tiny invasive critter has the potential to wreak havoc on PNW forests.

But once your vision adapts, you see this impossibly blue pool of water stretching out before you, surrounded by limestone ...

In the summer of 2024, the researchers hit the road, chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania. Finally, they got lucky: While camped out during a thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, they ...

The historic Chateau at the Oregon Caves is an architectural gem that deserves recognition beyond its role as a place to ...

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for hiding in plain ...

A freshwater ecologist explains why the mountain is less a postcard and more a slow-leaking, bug-monitored water machine.