A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

"People change all kinds of things in winter,” says Ebi. In a way, especially in cultures that spend a lot of time indoors, temperature is the least of it. For Ebi, these other seasonal factors ...

The Los Angeles fires are a soul-crushing and city-defining disaster. Callous voices have called it a city-destroying event, but they don’t know Los Angeles very well.

We all know that Tokyo is a city like no other, where neon-lit skyscrapers stand side by side with ancient shrines, and every ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

Organized by archaeology students and faculty, the mobile library offers two things: books and sandboxes ... is in the process of obtaining books and National Geographic magazines, flying some ...

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

Ray Bandar's "Bone Palace" spanned thousands of skulls he stashed in the basement of his Miraloma Park home. The collection lives on at the Academy of Sciences.

The wacky, the wild, and the weird. E ven if you weren’t someone who got excited about science class in school, now—as an ...

The deep wellsprings of U.S. foreign policy—the geographic, economic, and political conditions that shape Washington’s approach—are relatively stable. Policymakers tend to identify national interests ...