Las Vegas showman Jonathan Kraft went from riches to rags to turn a patch of Arizona desert into a refuge for abused and abandoned exotic animals
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The world’s largest (maybe) 9-planet solar system model goes up along Route 1 in northern Maine
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The 5,000-plus-year-old Neolithic man discovered a decade ago is telling scientists how he lived and died
An international campaign to rid the world of polio has made dazzling progress. But some experts question whether the scourge can ever be eradicated
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Angry fishermen accuse the cormorant of ruining their livelihood and have taken the law into their own hands. But is the cormorant to blame?
When a million-ton iceberg threatens your $5 billion oil platform, who you gonna call? Jerome Baker
Scientists launch a $1 billion effort to track marine life worldwide
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Is it the fresh air, the seafood, or genes? Why do so many hardy 100-year-olds live in yes, Nova Scotia?
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In a case that could reveal the villain behind the Irish Potato Famine, the gumshoe is a plant scientist
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Inquisitive, formidable and endangered, giant otters are luring tourists by the thousands to Brazil’s unspoiled, biodiverse waterscape
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Fruit sleuths and nursery owners are fighting to save our nation’s apple heritage…before it’s too late
Science meets shamanism at a gathering to ponder the fate of the Pacific Ocean leatherback
Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
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Scientists are discovering that caves more complex than we ever imagined may yield vast riches about the origins of life
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Without the extraordinary dedication of a few conservationists, New Zealand’s kakapo would likely have gone the way of the dodo
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A California biologist discovered a new insect species and then caught evolution in the act
Snow, sleet, hail or volcanic eruption cloud physicist Peter Hobbs will find a way to fly into it
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