With air-minded films, poems, and demonstrations, Soviet leaders sought to lift peasants out of their “backward” lives and into the world of the modern proletariat.

Cranes, sandpipers, ducks, geese and many other waterbirds have lost essential rest stops along their seasonal migration routes. Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in filling the gaps.

Historians are recovering the overlooked history of North America’s Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake.

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

You may have heard of IBM’s chess-playing computer, but Johann Nepomuk Maelzel’s Automaton Chess Player beat Deep Blue to the (mechanical) punch. Check mate.

The saguaro cactus has evolved to endure dry days and high temperatures, but even this resilient plant struggles to cope with the effects of climate change.

Carbon removal, a proposed solution to climate change, will require the injection of CO₂ underground—but under whose property?

A toxic fungus from King Tutankhamun’s tomb yields cancer-fighting compounds.

Pits and seeps full of tar and asphalt offer new insights into old ecosystems and cultures.

And how we may have finally found some.