Growing up in a rural Southern California town in the 1990s, Tammy Russell didn’t know any scientists. And yet it was there, amid the fields of Cherry Valley, that she started dreaming about a future ...

Fur seals may look like they’re simply resting after exhausting hunting trips at sea, but their bodies are secretly working ...

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Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

Headlines in early summer 2024: Surface water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea are significantly higher than the values from the previous year. Individual data points indicate that it is not only ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

Scientists take innovation in coral e-DNA monitoring to the next level. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, in collaboration with the ...

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Consider the spleen. Many may not appreciate or even think about them very much at all, unless they’ve had them removed, but the Bajau people of Southeast Asia rely on them every day without even ...