Woolly bear caterpillars (known as woolly worms) are said to predict the winter weather, but are they accurate?

Phew! It barely feels like seven days have passed since last time, but here we are again with another Weekly Digest - in which we recap some of the highlights you might have missed over this past week ...

Meteorological winter is a little more than a month away. We have already looked at how a "warm blob" in the northern Pacific Ocean and unusually cooler water along the equator in the eastern Pacific ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

The worms can jump as much as a foot off the ground. They also can make the soil inhospitable for native plants and insects.

At first glance, a glacier looks like a rather lifeless thing—a barren chunk of ice. But there’s much more than meets the eye: Glaciers are home to a host of tiny organisms that make up a flourishing ...

Static electricity can be a small annoyance for humans—a zap when you touch a doorknob, your hair shooting up when you pull off a sweater—but for small organisms, it can be a lifesaver. Static helps ...