African fish called mormyrids communicate using pulses of electricity. To distinguish their own signal from those of neighboring fish, their brains...
Marking its 15th anniversary since launch, one of the oldest spacecraft at the Red Planet has provided glimpses of dust devils, avalanches, and more.
Time-sensitive climate change research is taking a hit due to coronavirus.
Tropical forest soil warmed in experiments to levels consistent with end-of-century temperature projections released 55 percent more CO2 than control plots
The most successful and cost-effective ways to restore coral reefs have been identified by an international group of scientists, after analyzing restoration projects in Latin America.
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of Indigenous communities cultivating bananas in Australia. The evidence of cultivation and plant management dates back 2,145 years and was...
The parasite is a type of isopod—an ancient order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives.
Researchers from Germany sent solar cells into low-Earth Orbit to see how well they might perform in longer, deep space missions.
The tuatara, whose ancestors once roamed the Earth with dinosaurs, is the last living species of the order Rhynchocephalia, a key link between ancient...
The tuatara, whose ancestors once roamed the Earth with dinosaurs, is the last living species of the order Rhynchocephalia, a key link between ancient...