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In the middle of North America, there is a portal to the deep recesses of Earth's rocky interior. The portal's mouth -- a furrowed pit about half a mile wide [...]

On April 26, 2019, a beluga whale appeared near Tufjord, a village in northern Norway, immediately alarming fishermen in the area. Belugas in that part of the world typically inhabit [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . On the evening of Oct. 10, 2006, Dennis DeGray's mind was [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . In 1990, not long after Jean-Marie Robine and Michel Allard began [...]

As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada's old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked [...]

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. It might have started like this: One afternoon last year, somewhere in [...]

Charlie Bracke can't remember a time when he wasn't into video games. When he was 5, he loved playing Wolfenstein 3D, a crude, cartoonish computer game in which a player [...]

A male flame bowerbird is a creature of incandescent beauty. The hue of his plumage transitions seamlessly from molten red to sunshine yellow. But that radiance is not enough to [...]

One day in June 2012, at São Paulo's international airport, Suzana Herculano-Houzel hauled two heavy suitcases onto an X-ray-machine conveyor belt. As the luggage passed through the scanner, the customs [...]

One Christmas, when I was about 8, I received a modern bestiary, a large photo-dense encyclopedia of animals. I had loved animals from toddlerhood -- and had begun assembling a [...]

Con Slobodchikoff and I approached the mountain meadow slowly, obliquely, softening our footfalls and conversing in whispers. It didn't make much difference. Once we were within 50 feet of the [...]

On a warm, clear evening in March, with the sun still hanging above the horizon, Cassandra Quave climbed aboard a jalape±o-green 4-by-4 and started to drive across her father's ranch [...]

On the morning of July 13, like most mornings, Stephen Jones's laboratory in Mount Vernon, Wash., was suffused with the thick warm smell of baking bread. Jones walked me around [...]

Hunter Mountain, a three-hour drive northwest of New York, calls itself the Snow-Making Capital of the World. When operating at maximum capacity, the ski resort's 1,100 or so snow guns [...]

Three years ago, on an expedition to Sulawesi, one of the larger islands in the Indonesia archipelago, the archaeologist Adam Brumm visited a cave decorated with ancient art: mulberry-colored hand [...]