Scientists have shown that light pollution—especially light in the blue spectrum—can alter the behavior of fish after only a few nights, and have knock-on effects for their offspring. The team from ...

The first humans to sit around campfires probably observed a strange example of animal behavior that continues to perplex people today. They would have seen insects that emerge from the night and ...

The night sky has been brightening faster than researchers realized, thanks to the use of artificial lights at night. A study of more than 50,000 observations of stars by citizen scientists reveals ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. In the 11th summer of my life, I befriended a local boy on Ocracoke Island. Tall, soft-spoken, with a mop of red ...