In "The Creatures' Guide to Caring," Elizabeth Preston traces myriad methods of caregiving across the natural world.

Companies aim to edit germlines, which they say could prevent a range of diseases. But do people want the tech?

In 1905, British archaeologists descended on a sliver of eastern Africa, aiming to uncover and extract artifacts from 3,000-year-old temples. They left mostly with photographs, discouraged by the ever ...

For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; museums and universities maintain entire departments ...

Even before U.S. forces seized Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump reiterated his long-stated desire to take control of Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory. “We need ...

While short-lived, the denial came as a surprise. This March, Loudoun County, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia that is home to the greatest concentration of data centers in the world, ...

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When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, many tribal leaders took a wait-and-see approach, given his poor record on Indigenous affairs. Four years later, Indian Country has weathered a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced last month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the U.S. uses to track ...

When Anthony Fauci stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2022, he had been in the role for 38 years. He had served under seven different presidents ...