Follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep.

A research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean follows crows in aviaries and in the wild while answering many thought-provoking questions.

The August 2017 solar eclipse was the chance of a lifetime for astronomer Shadia Habbal, where years of planning came down to one moment of totality.

About earth movement and plate tectonics, and the possibility of earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an area between British Columbia and northern California.

Bug scientists, called entomologists, present information on insects and explain how they use that information in their work.

In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey.