Fungi's role in our world has been vastly underestimated, says biologist Merlin Sheldrake. They can even make decisions, just like us.

Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future? Trees replacing the clear pane glass in your windows is not a work of science fiction. It’s happening now.

Just because we’ve lost our way doesn’t mean that we are lost forever. In the end, it’s not the failures that define us so much as how we respond.

Nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.

Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, released Trump's course of treatment in a public memo following Trump's early-morning disclosure on Twitter.

Learn more about A new study finds that levels of oxytocin, “the love hormone,” are significantly lower in adults who were children when their parents divorced

The prevalence of dementia in places where more than one language is spoken is 50% lower than in regions where the population uses only one languageA study has shown that Alzheimer's patients with a higher degree of bilingualism receive a later diagnosis…

Researchers determined that Greenland is on track to lose more ice this century than during any of the previous 120 centuries. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future

Last week, biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake introduced Nautilus readers to Paul Stamets, a mycologist who preaches that mushrooms…

Scientific Reports - Self-medication by orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) using bioactive properties of Dracaena cantleyi

Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future? Trees replacing the clear pane glass in your windows is not a work of science fiction. It’s happening now.

Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected.

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products…

Humanity’s most recent common ancestor and so-called genetic isopoint illustrate the surprising connections among our family trees

Why is coronavirus leaving some people with long-term health problems including fatigue?