Most fungi can’t grow and reproduce in the human body because it’s too warm. But experts say they’re evolving.

Ongoing droughts are straining the supply of clean drinking water. One solution might lie in an unexpected source: wastewater. Through a method of purification called reverse osmosis, Orange Country is making millions of gallons of dirty water drinkable again.

As the climate warms, small changes in average temperature can have big impacts, including an increase in the number of people exposed to extreme heat.

A method of boosting snow and rainfall may help ease drought conditions in the western US.

Relax to the sound of the ocean and discover the science behind sunsets.

Can NASA’s most powerful telescope detect key ingredients for life as we know it?

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up complex machines centuries ahead of his time, including parachutes, armored tanks, hang gliders, and robots.

Data image developers combine science and art to bring color to JWST's images.

Ancient paintings on rock walls feature human figures and animals of today’s rainforest, like deer, tapirs, and jaguars. But they also appear to show animals that went extinct thousands of years ago.

Along the river Gambia in Senegal, there are more than a thousand stone circles. The people who placed these stones would have observed how the locations of sunrise and sunset varied over the year. By aligning the stones to these points, they would’ve been able to track the seasons.