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

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

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 ...

Tiny underwater algae sway gently in the current. All of a sudden, a light shines on them and they form robotic-like arms that start to pick up small rocks and put them in floating baskets. Sounds ...

Rutgers researchers are part of an international call for a microbiome moonshot, a massive, coordinated effort to pinpoint how certain microorganisms inside us drive chronic disease and how others can ...

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe’s major Palaeolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought. An international research team led by ...

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.

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 ...

Giant manta rays can grow up to nine meters long with a disc size of seven meters across and weigh up to 2,000 kg. This size leaves them with very few natural enemies once they reach adulthood at ...

Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid) seen in a wide VIS image for context (left), with a zoom in (right). The image was captured on 20 September 2026, during the Euclid Deep Field North survey. It is a 560.52 ...

Japanese house bats’ heart rates respond strongly to the sound of their own pups’ cries, but not to the cries of other pups of the same age A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies ...