Air-BorneCarl Zimmer Dutton, $32. On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air.

James Cameron has created epic sci-fi movies, and he nearly adapted this award-winning sci-fi trilogy, but it never got out ...

This April, the SciFri Book Club is reading When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance by Riley Black. In the beginning, there were plants. Billions of years ago, ...

When you imagine prehistoric life, it’s likely that the first thing that comes to mind are dinosaurs: long-necked Apatosauruses, flying Pterosaurs, big toothy Tyrannosaurs. But what don’t get as much ...

He’s the author of a new book called Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Thanks so much for coming on to chat today, Carl. Carl Zimmer: Thanks for having me.

The answer, according to science writer and paleontologist Riley Black, lies in plants. Black narrates the story of this Jurassic saurian in a chapter of her latest book, When the Earth Was Green .

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

John Green's new book Everything Is Tuberculosis shares the same goal as his other work: to make the world "suck less." In this week's Wild Card, he shares how he battles despair.

In a new book, “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence,” out on Aug. 6, Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, offers a theory that she and her colleagues ...