Nature

New research suggests bioluminescence was an ancestral trait in octocorals, but today only a handful of species still gl...

On 29 July 2025 a powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kuril-Kamchatka trench generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, and a satell...

The University of Maine is mapping how offshore kelp farming could reshape coastal economies and supply chains. By pairi...

A puzzling fossil called Paradoxophidion is reopening questions about how modern snakes evolved. New study of museum spe...

New deep-sea drilling in the South Atlantic has revealed that broken lava deposits on the seafloor lock away far more ca...

A single-celled organism discovered in the steaming pools of Lassen Volcanic National Park has rewritten what scientists...

Scientists have just decoded the largest cephalopod genome on record from the elusive deep-sea creature commonly called ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered unexpected genetic parallels between humans and golden retriev...

Researchers have developed a new class of plastics that combine high strength with programmable lifespans. Inspired by n...

In July 2024 a powerful earthquake centered beneath Calama, northern Chile, challenged long-standing ideas about how dee...

Climate modelers warn that the next decades could bring a dramatic increase in multi-year droughts that overwhelm local ...

Two recently reported Chinese gold discoveries — the Wangu deposit in Hunan province and the Dadonggou deposit in Liaoni...

Many pet dogs carry a trace of their wild relatives: a new genomic analysis finds wolf ancestry across a majority of mod...

Scientists have found a surprising new trigger inside volcanic conduits: shear forces that "knead" magma and produce gas...

New research shows that coastal upwelling systems are accelerating ocean acidification well beyond global averages, thre...

Researchers have discovered that certain ferns can concentrate rare earth elements (REEs) by forming microscopic monazit...

Deep beneath the Yucatán Peninsula, a watery labyrinth keeps yielding secrets. Sistema Ox Bel Ha — the Maya name for "Th...

New long-term monitoring from Colorado raises alarm: the youngest members of a familiar alpine species — the American pi...

A stealthy intruder can rewrite the rulebook inside an ant colony. New footage and research published in Current Biology...

In a remote stretch of British Columbia coastline, researchers captured a behavior that challenges assumptions about wol...