Touching reunions between animals and humans that warm even the coldest hearts. These endangered predators have finally returned. Should California be killing them? Alaska’s New Mining Rush Chases ...

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Kendra Coulter's new book, "The Tortoise Tale", helps us recognize the interconnectedness of all life and shows how an unlikely wild neighbor can help us see ourselves anew.

Photographer Gerrard Gethings searched the UK for human-dog pairings. After doing a similar project with cats, he's now working on a new series.

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Illusions mess with our brains all the time – not in a harmful way, but creatively. What we think we’re seeing often isn’t what’s actually there. Take the Ebbinghaus illusion, for example: you look at ...

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We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Travel involves two main expenditures of energy: fighting gravity and propelling ...

We humans like to think that we are more complex and sophisticated creatures than, for example, a fish, so it may come as a surprise to learn that there is a creature with 30 times more DNA than we ...