Two years ago, physicists at the University of Chicago were greeted with fireworks—atoms shooting out in jets—when they discovered a new form of quantum behavior. But the patterns underlying the ...

Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

A week ago, I stood on the shore of a lake in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, watching the sun rise through diaphanous clouds. The surface of the lake was a gently undulating mirror, reflecting dawn’s ...

They’re lean, green, and mean — not to mention an incredible team. They’re the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and over the weekend, one of them apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US — ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. Researchers monitoring nesting green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus have discovered they are returning to their ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - As 2020 comes to a close, researchers at the University of Georgia have started analyzing this year’s sea turtle nesting season along the Grand Strand. The city of Myrtle ...

We propose that the spotted carapacial pattern of both Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) and the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) imitates duckweed (family Lemnaceae). This relationship may be ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

As global temperatures continue to rise due to the impacts of human-caused climate change, sea turtles are changing their nesting behaviors in response. Green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus, the ...