Ball’s Pyramid
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world’s rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
February 8, 2026
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world’s rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh coun…
Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of history. Bio-molecular archaeology can bring ancient odors to life and allow people to breathe in the past. Advances in the field have shown t…
Lead pollution today compared to 100 years ago has dramatically declined—by 100-fold over the last century—according to new research. Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin that accumulates in human tissues and is linked to developmental deficits in children. …
Caltech graduate student Hannah Dion-
Kirschner studies microbes in soil that eat methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in…
