The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

Beyond better testing, we need better protection. Physical shields seem like the obvious first defense. Hydrogen-rich materials such as polyethylene and water-absorbing hydrogels can slow charged ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...