Fill up on food that tastes like 'freedom and rebellion and independence' in honor of Lorelai, Rory and all your favorite Stars Hollow residents.

Beautiful video from National Geographic shows how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Australian Reptile Park shares a creepy video of funnel web spiders emerging from an egg sac, just in time for Halloween.

Kick off Earth Week with this dramatic three-minute film, which dives into the 'Heart of Darkness' to highlight the humbling majesty of our planet.

2012 may prove to be the year of the electric car. Some of the world’s biggest automakers will be bringing new electric vehicles to market in 2012. They are n

Annual celestial event often produces large bright fireballs that scorch the night sky.

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography traveled out to a spot of sea 1,000 miles from shore and were sad to find plastic everywhere.

This time-lapse video explores a full day at the checkout lanes of a Walmart store in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.

New research finds that the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles responsible for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

There's a secret world of microbes hidden on the plastic littering the oceans.

The winner of a new video contest can join a 3-week 'hardcore sailing adventure' through North Atlantic garbage patches.

A single-celled, coral-killing creature with 'devil horns' has been found on microplastics in the open ocean.

Angela Sun investigated several aspects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in her documentary "Plastic Paradise."

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Look up into the sky this week to see why autumn is the favorite season for many skywatchers.

Astronomers have used instruments on board SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory, to examine a planet beyond solar system.

For the first time ever, astronomers have directly observed planets in the process of being born.

From measuring our oceans to studying Jupiter, we'll learn more about space in 2016.

Why not take this opportunity to view six other meteor showers this summer?

Advocacy groups call the new recommendation arbitrary and discriminatory.

When these 7-year-olds are treated to a $220 tasting menu, their reactions are priceless (and insightful.)

Nootropic foods, foil pack dinners, wine water, ugly produce and more food and dining trends coming to your plate in 2019.

The LA show, opening this week, features some intriguing green concept cars...headed for production. Are you ready for a compact hybrid Lexus, a 170-mpg VW and

We chat with astrotourism specialist Valerie Stimac, and author of 'Dark Skies,' about the best places to gaze into the beauty of the heavens.

From a wolf moon eclipse to multiple SpaceX Starlink launches, here's what not to miss in the January 2020 night sky.

Older people are watching more television than ever — about 4.5 hours a day — and more than any other group.

MSNBC offers some useful tips for making a trip to the local farmers market more productive.

Learn how solar panels convert the sun’s rays into energy in this DOE video.

The College's partnership with Decorah, Iowa is featured in this DOE video.

These before-and-after shots perfectly capture the moment a compliment is received.

California condors hatch at Zion and Grand Canyon national parks, pushing their numbers beyond 500.

The bald eagles of the Decorah and Decorah North nests in Iowa are the stars of two webcams that let us follow along with their daily drama.

Video shows a majestic murmuration of starlings flying across a beautiful Irish sky.

A massive bald eagle is filmed in slow motion taking off from a street in Melrose, near Boston.

Tian Tian the giant panda from the Smithsonian National Zoo had a grand time rolling around in the snow dropped by Winter Storm Jonas.

The 20-year-old wunderkind's impossible dream of cleaning up ocean plastic is becoming a reality.

Watch the northern lights from home, courtesy of explore.org through their live camera in Canada.

The NAACP on the green economy, a CEO search at Veterans Green Jobs, and Indiana's green jobs future.

Deserts have a lot of sun, but not much water. That's why researchers are advocating combined solar and agave farms.

Connecticut inventor and tinkerer Dave Nichols thinks cars should run on biomass. He just might just be on to something.

Sheryl Grossman has one of the rarest diseases on Earth and may not live to see 50. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, this woman battling Bloom's Synd

The breeding of these extremely rare, enormous insects is one of the most inspiring stories in the history of conservation.

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, who built and flew her own plane at 14, just earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and she's proof of the growing power of the STEM push.

The series, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, has the highest number of adult-child coviewing experiences of any children’s show.

A Rehoming Center in Ireland celebrates Christmas with adoptable dogs by allowing them to pick their own present from donated toys.