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In the tangled ecosystems of the Amazon and beyond, animals are locked in a biochemical arms race. Predators, prey and p...

Scientists are turning to a surprising class of two-dimensional compounds—MXenes—to rethink how we produce fuels and ess...

Greenland's solid ground is not as solid as it looks. Decades of ice build-up, melting, and a deep-time rebound from the...

Flatworms are already regeneration superstars in biology labs — cut one in half and you often get two whole animals. Now...

When you picture plastic in the ocean, bottles and bags floating on the surface probably come to mind. But that visible ...

Scientists have found surprising microbial communities living beneath Arctic sea ice — organisms that carry the genetic ...

The Southern Ocean has quietly soaked up a century of heat and carbon from human activity. New climate simulations sugge...

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), one of the planet's most endangered large marine mammals, appears ...

Iceland — long counted among the last mosquito-free places on Earth — has recorded wild mosquitoes for the first time. E...

Researchers have developed a fluorescent molecular probe that lights up when marine sugars are broken down, allowing sci...

New research warns Antarctica is slipping toward rapid, interconnected shifts that could reshape global climate, ocean c...

New research led by Rutgers University shows modern sea level rise is accelerating faster than at any time in the last f...

Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations surged to unprecedented levels in 2024, pushing global warming risks higher an...

Salterella is a tiny, oddball fossil from the early Cambrian that is forcing scientists to rethink how the first animals...

Wild populations of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) have been officially classified as endangered within the Europ...

Rare bilateral gynandromorph spider discovered in ThailandIn a remote forested area of western Thailand, researchers fro...

New experiments show Moai could have been "walked" by Rapa NuiThe monumental stone statues known as Moai on Easter Islan...

Stranded dolphins and a troubling neurotoxin linkToxic cyanobacterial blooms may be driving dolphins to strand themselve...

New research and the imageModern agricultural practices that boost short-term yields can undermine the long-term health ...

Fishing spiders (genus Dolomedes and related taxa) are semi-aquatic arachnids capable of hunting surprisingly large and ...