As highways have become almost ubiquitous in the US, motorists travel faster and farther—resulting in more traffic.

Why ask, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" when you can instead consider, "Why did the road cross the land?" ...

Sy Montgomery is the author of What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird. She’s based in Hancock, New Hampshire. This website uses cookies to improve your experience ...

Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or your favorite podcasting app. A moment from a performance of “The Moth Project.” Credit: Marvin Zana. Before ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Origin by Jennifer Raff. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a message via our ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Fire Weather by John Vaillant. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a message via ...

Researchers studying tracks fossilized in Cretaceous-era lakeshore mud in what is now South Korea argue this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the dinosaur footprints are ...

Leading up to the November election, Science Friday is covering top science issues on the ballot. For voters, those top issues include abortion. Since the Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade in June ...

Don Hankins, professor of geography and planning at California State University, Chico, stands in a burn scar from the Park Fire south of Forest Ranch along Route 32 on Sept. 10, 2024. Credit: Beth ...

For decades, rodent experiments with parabiosis, which involves surgically joining circulatory systems, have shown that old animals can benefit from sharing blood with much younger animals. Credit: ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...