Meg Duff

Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.

Elephants use ear flaps, rumbles, trunk reaches and other forms of communication to greet peers, new research suggests.

Sea levels were extraordinarily high during the last period of the dinosaur age. But ocean levels may have been even higher before that.

Artificial lights can be deadly to the insects that fly around them, so why do these critters do it?

Climate change is raising sea levels, and many low-lying islands are at risk. But determining which communities will be first to leave is impossible to answer.

Most scientists say a star can never become a planet, but the boundaries between these stellar objects can sometimes be murky.

Here's the science behind urine and whether it's sterile or swimming with bacteria.

It may sound counterintuitive, but can a steaming drink cool you down on a scorching day?

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

Most organisms have two parents, but not all. Could an individual have three parents, or even more?

The Greek writer Plutarch proposed this question: If a ship's planks are replaced over time due to wear and tear until none of the original pieces remain, is it still the same ship?

Cats may purr because they're happy, but also for a slew of other reasons, including getting their owner's attention and stress.

Humans aren't the only species that has entered the Stone Age. Who else is in the club?

Coal takes tens if not hundreds of millions of years to form; it all starts with living plants that eventually fossilize.

Pangaea was one of the largest continents in world history, but now it's broken up. So which continent today is the largest, and which is the smallest?