In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of ...

In the ebb and flow of crowded crosswalks, a surprising pattern emerges: people can naturally form neat lanes of movement.

Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it ...

A polar bear lounges in a field of pink flowers. An arctic fox skips gingerly as the thaw of spring moves in. And a baby chimpanzee sips a bottle. The 2024 Nature Photography Contest showcases the ...

A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed on a plan to generate $200 billion US in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world. The United ...

Katy Deitz’s laurel oak was decades old, the trunk half the length of her body, when the hollowing effects of heart-rot decay rendered the tree unsafe to stand. Arborists felled the oak, and Deitz ...

Nations have come to a compromise over plans to raise and deliver billions in funding for biodiversity protection, paving the way for action to counter the growing problem of species loss.

Countries agree plan to raise $200 billion a year for nature by 2030 Follows failure to agree details in Colombia in October A global deal-making boost as Trump cuts US aid efforts ROME, Feb 28 ...

Colombian Minister of the Environment Susana Muhamad opens the COP16 biodiversity conference at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, on February 25, 2025.