NPR's science podcast Short Wave talks about why wolves are thriving in California, a new estimation of the world's insect species and the universe's earliest quasars.

It smells like rotten flesh, attracts flies, and looks like it's from an alien planet. But the stinkhorn mushroom is more common than people think.

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Are aliens real? Was Fox Mulder right all along? We examine the prediction markets to gauge if the U.S. government will confirm that aliens exist before January 2029. The prediction market on a U.S.

These colossal clams were rumoured to kill humans but the opposite is true – climate change, pollution and overharvesting are ...