Meadows once teeming with buzzing insects and colorful plants are quietly losing their diversity. But how fast is this change ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

A massive, multi-year scientific expedition led by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and ...

In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew ...

Many mobile apps claiming to support early reading skills in children fail to deliver actual educational benefit, with ...

In a study published in the journal Nucleic Acid Research, a research team at Karolinska Institutet has performed a ...

Protein kinases are the molecular switches of the cell. They control growth, division, communication, and survival by ...

Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided favorite: a ...

The male Lady Amherst's pheasant knows how to put on a show when it comes to attracting mates. As well as elaborate courtship ...

A paper published in Biology Methods and Protocols, finds that it is now possible to distinguish wild from farmed salmon ...