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Nature, or the natural world, encompasses the behavior and physiology of animals, plants and minerals
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Public for the First Time: A Last Letter from Dying Antarctic Explorer Captain Scott

In private hands for the past hundred years, Captain Scott's final letter is revealed
March 29, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Ant robots

Sugar Cube-Sized Robotic Ants Mimic Real Foraging Behavior

Researchers use tiny robots to study how ants navigate a labyrinth of networks, from the nest to the food and back again
March 28, 2013 | By Marina Koren

Events March 29-31: Parasitic Wasps, Joseph Henry and Victorian Portraits

This weekend, learn about wasps that live inside their prey, meet Smithsonian's first secretary from 1846 and see living rooms from 150 years ago
March 28, 2013 | By Paul Bisceglio

A Survey of the 161 Bacterial Families That Live on Your Fruits and Veggies

The first-ever sequencing of the "produce microbiome" reveals that grapes, peaches and sprouts host the largest diversity of harmless bacteria
March 27, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

Butterflies, Baseball and Blossoms: Tours for Your Spring Vacation

Two custom tours come fully loaded with insider information, digital postcards and step-by-step directions
March 27, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

Attractive Great Tits Raise Healthier Babies, Even If They’re Not Genetically Related

Males may be selecting for females with brighter cheeks and bolder stripes, which indicate the females' genetic strength and parenting skills
March 26, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Are You Here on Earth Just to Make Babies?

If so, what does that really mean for what we do each day, our culture and our society?
March 26, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

The Otherworldly Calm of Wolfgang Laib’s Glowing Beeswax Room

A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
March 26, 2013 | By Megan Gambino

Smuggler Caught With 10 Percent of an Entire Species

At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand, authorities stopped a man with some turtles. Fifty-four ploughshare tortoises and twenty-one radiated tortoises, to be exact
March 26, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Warning: Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Being socially isolated increases your chance of death—but not because you're feeling depressed over being lonely
March 25, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

Sea Monkeys, Ferns and Frozen Frogs: Nature’s Very Own Resurrecting Organisms

As Easter draws near, we celebrate creatures that seemingly die and then come back to life
March 25, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Can Watching One Video Help You Die Better?

Since most of us don't see emergency medicine all that often, we tend to have an unrealistic idea about just how end of life care works
March 25, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

People in Israel Really Are Eating Swarming Locusts

While there are simply too many locusts to eat the swarm out of existence, Israelis who do tuck in can enjoy a healthy, kosher snack
March 22, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Brown Polar Bears, Beluga-Narwhals and Other Hybrids Brought to You by Climate Change

Animals with shrinking habitats are interbreeding, temporarily boosting populations but ultimately hurting species' survival
March 22, 2013 | By Claire Martin

Death Club for Hipsters Wants to Change the Way You See Dying

Called the Order of the Good Death, the club is full of artists, writers, film makers, musicians and other creative types
March 21, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Video: This Lizard-Inspired Robot Can Scamper Across Sand

It's a product of the emerging field of terradynamics, which studies the movement of vehicles across shifting surfaces
March 21, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

Scientists Are Making All Sorts of New Drugs From Animal Venom

Several venom-derived drugs are already approved on the market and scientists are working on what they think are many more to come
March 21, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

How Does One Actually Shrink a Head?

How does one take a regular sized human skull and miniaturize it?
March 20, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Untangling the Mysterious Genetic Tentacles of the Giant Squid

Contrary to prior speculation about the elusive creatures, all giant squid belong to a single species and they all share very similar genetics
March 20, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas

An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming
March 20, 2013 | By Colin Schultz


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