The invasive pests, known as short-spined thrips, may be microscopic, but they’re a menacing threat. South Florida’s warming ...

Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose? A new study investigates the evolutionary reasons why organisms go through developmental ...

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Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other ...

But it all starts with dogs and their wild cousins, which are definitive hosts for neospora. After a dog eats infected ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

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Lab-grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before.

Microbes that hitched a ride into orbit are not just surviving in space, they are changing in ways that give them startling ...

Viewing the natural world separately from humans — whether in a void or sweeping landscape completely untouched by industrialization — is reductive and can absolve us of our responsibility in the ...

A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...