nature

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a new species of wasp is inflicting horror movie-worthy terror on "social" spiders.

A new study says we’ve vastly underestimated the amount of heat trapped by Earth’s oceans due to global warming.

A federal study found that out of 17 environmental indicators at Wood Buffalo National Park—the second-largest national park in the world—15 are declining.

Researchers made a neural network out of DNA that can recognize handwritten numbers.

The young gray wolf travelled 369 km outside of its home range in 21 days.

Researchers from Google, Facebook, IBM, MIT and Harvard have pledged not to contribute to a new journal about machine learning, citing its lack of open access.

A unique experiment in jaguar conservation is playing out in Brazil. Motherboard went to see how it’s working, and took some VR cameras.

Oh, and it's antibacterial, too.

Researchers studied animal deaths in the wake of African armed conflicts.

Your trip out into nature could be putting these animals at risk.

One of science's most important publications assumes science journalists don't know how to do their jobs.

Millions of people in cities rely on recorded nature sounds to manage sleep and stress, and scientists are slowly understanding why it works.