The numbers are in, and they’re bleak. The 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report just dropped, confirming what scientists, conservationists, and any backyard birdwatcher with a functioning set of eyes already suspected—America’s bird populations are spiraling downward....

A sleeping giant in Alaska just stirred, and scientists are watching it like a bad prophecy coming true. Mount Spurr, a hulking volcano 75 miles from Anchorage, has started leaking volcanic gases at an alarming rate. Translation: fresh magma is on the move beneath the...

Take a deep breath. That sweet, life-sustaining oxygen you just inhaled? You might owe it to a few billion years of volcanic chaos. Before Earth became the breathable paradise (relatively speaking) it is today, our atmosphere was a suffocating wasteland of carbon...

Mosquitoes are already nature’s most annoying parasites, but things just got worse. According to new research, their pain receptors go numb in extreme heat, making natural repellents like citronella and catnip oil about as effective as wishful thinking. As...

Mount Adams, a 12,000-foot colossus in Washington state, just reminded everyone it's not dead—only dormant. Over two months, nine small earthquakes rattled the volcano, far exceeding its usual sleeping pattern of one every few years. Scientists are watching closely,...

Scientists just proved the existence of quantum tornadoes. Not in the sky—these vortices twist through the momentum space of tantalum arsenide, a quantum semi-metal that now sounds even cooler than its name suggests. Electrons, it turns out, don’t just drift lazily...