Applying insights from animal experiments to our understanding of humans requires knowing how gene functions correspond across species. DNA sequence similarity alone, however, does not always reveal ...

What does it mean to be alive? How could life adapt to places beyond Earth? Could intelligence and consciousness exist in ...

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

In July 2026, the US House passed legislation to make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. But a new analysis of the consequences of the “Sunshine Protection Act,” reported in the Cell Press journal ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell ...

Humans and vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and muscle twitches. Can a similar sleep state be observed in ...

A Japanese macaque from a group that experienced a deadly disease outbreak encounters two pieces of food — one placed on a clean surface and one placed on a surface with a visual cue of contamination.

New fossil evidence reveals the first fully marine amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus, which dates to the Late Triassic period nearly 237 million years ago. The animal had a flattened body that was ...

Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the ...

Common ways of reporting perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the man-made, so-called forever chemicals that pose environmental and health threats—could underestimate the concentration ...

Identifying individual animals in the wild has long meant tagging, branding or clipping. For amphibians, the standard approach has often been toe-clipping, a procedure that can affect survival, ...

A massive genetic study offers one of the clearest pictures yet of how DNA contributes to personality, identifying genetic variants associated with five major personality traits. However, rather than ...