Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Imagine a lush forest with tree-ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.

Model and TikTok influencer Nara Smith is opening up about why she hid her latest pregnancy with baby No. 4 for six months.

They have led me here, to the subject of my essay, Robert Macfarlane’s tripartite ecological-literary tour de force, Is a ...

Smithsonian contributing writer Michael Ray Taylor about what rappelling into Natural Trap Cave reveals about its contents ...

Sending humans to Mars is a great promise of the 21st century - politically supported by Donald Trump and technologically by Elon Musk - but also one of the most difficult missions imaginable.

Today we will discuss some random animals that we may consider unusual although some of them, like the tardigrade, are not unusual at all, but ubiquitous. I first learned of the existence of ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...