A major milestone for Hope for Wildlife is taking shape as the organization prepares to complete the construction of N.S.’s first orphaned black bear rehab facility.

A 15 year old engineered a robotic sea turtle that detects invisible ocean threats while helping track marine pollution at ...

Across the animal kingdom, many species are covered in simple, solid colors, while others display patterns that seem random and chaotic. But some animals seem to follow the rules of mathematics, ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field.

Until recently, researchers were unable to conduct satellite-tracking studies on juvenile turtles because of their small body ...

Cartier, the watchmaker of shapes, welcomes back several signature forms and stylishly marks a decade of one of its most ...

A new report shows 78% of Americans see the American dream as worth striving for, even though less than half see it as ...

For a moment, imagine that there are no state lines. View the United States through its natural contours. As curators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, we often look at our ...

April set off down a wooded path on the North Fork, nose to the ground, darting and weaving through the bunchberry, blackberry and ferns. She wore a bright orange vest treated with permethrin to deter ...

A 15-year-old Canadian student has built a robotic turtle that may point to a quieter, gentler way of watching over underwater ecosystems. The device, known as BURT (Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle), ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal. After a magnetic pulse briefly disrupted ...