Best of 2020: Science and Nature

Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

Researchers on the hunt for shipwrecks in Michigan’s Thunder Bay have a new helper in the form of an adorable yellow autonomous boat called BEN. The boat was developed by the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.

Imagine yourself as an alligator in central Florida, where 12 acres of wild land become human habitat every day.