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

Everyone knows Punxsutawney Phil. But in one North Carolina town, a much fuzzier forecaster takes center stage each fall.

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 bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

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 ...