Roads, dams and other infrastructure built to make life easier for people have unintentionally made survival harder for ...

This year's cuttlefish season has been unlike any other. Every winter, more than 100,000 giant Australian cuttlefish can ...

Much of Europe is bracing for another scorching heat wave following periods of record drought that have driven rivers to historic lows, ignited historic forest fires and contributed to thousands of ...

Hundreds of Venus-like planets could soon help determine why some worlds become sweltering greenhouse hellscapes while others ...

Meat is a rare and highly prized resource for wild Guinea baboons (Papio papio). Yet, contrary to long-standing assumptions based on human hunter–gatherer societies, a new study by the German Primate ...

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often struggle with executive functions—tasks involving ...

Mirrors normally reveal what is placed in front of them, even when their curvature distorts a reflection. Researchers at the ...

At the top and bottom of the planet, the seasons arrive on a schedule all their own. Satellite data from a mission measuring ...

In January 2024, physicists at TU Dortmund University demonstrated a continuous time crystal in a semiconductor whose oscillations remained stable for hours. In a new study published in Nature ...

Industrial-scale illegal fishing continues to undermine ocean sustainability, coastal livelihoods and global seafood markets—despite decades of regulation and recent advances in surveillance ...

Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to take it with them, they snapped some pictures, took some bones ...

El Niños and La Niñas are the third-most dominant influences on Earth's climate, after the sun and the greenhouse effect. But they haven't been easy to decipher or to predict in terms of when they ...