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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Mystery trees, loggerhead turtles and Brooklyn

"We keep on talking about doing a book together," says Madeleine Nash, of working with her husband, Thomas (above, at the South Pole).

Extreme Persistence

Madeleine and Thomas Nash braved high altitudes and frigid temperatures for “Chronicling the Ice”

Since early 2004, the Mars rovers have gathered images of rocks and terrain where water, the presumed prerequisite of life, once flowed (an artist's rendition).

Life Beyond Earth

An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we’re not alone?

The chimp with the most human-like gait and body type walked upright more efficiently than he knuckle-walked—a finding that study co-author Herman Pontzer calls a snapshot of how this evolution may have taken place. (This composite photograph pays homage to the iconic Evolution of Man.)

Walk This Way

Humans’ two-legged gait evolved to save energy, new research says

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Life Unplugged

Bundle up your power cords—wireless energy transfer is here

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Egyptian Mummy Identified as Legendary Hatshepsut

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Red Rover, Red Rover

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Tales From Lake Whoa-Be-Gone

Litter and garbage dumped in wetland area among water lilies and marsh plants

Garbage Into Fuel: A Reality

British Scientists Declare Independence from Americans

Arctic Plants on the Move Due to Global Warming

Low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria, magnified 10,000 times. Each individual bacterium is oblong shaped.

E. coli Bonding Before the Burger

Code Blue! Stat!

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Hormonal Hibernating Rodents

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The Iceman Dieth

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Polynesians Beat Europeans to the “New World”

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Snap Shot

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Geoff Marcy’s Heart Will Go On

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great sharks, manakins and dino digs

Lang's Butterfly, opus 410.

Into the Fold

Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions

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