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

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

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 ...

Running a marathon is a major physical feat. One expert answers listener questions about how it impacts the body and mind. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate ...

Physicist Lisa Randall explores the theory that a disc of dark matter could have been responsible for the catastrophic collision that extinguished the dinosaurs.

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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 ...

Dr. Heather Lynch is the Institute for Advanced Computational Science Endowed Professor of Ecology & Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. This website uses cookies to improve ...

Dr. Logan Casey is director of policy research at the Movement Advancement Project. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, ...

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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, ...