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 ...

Reproduction is central to the survival of all living organisms. Over millions of years, animal species on Earth have evolved a remarkable variety of mating strategies, ranging from physical fights ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Hot days could gain more than four additional hours of extreme heat by the end of the 21st century under a high-emissions scenario, according to a modeling study published in Nature Climate Change.

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 ...

Do you manage your own investments, buying and selling stocks and obsessively checking the earnings reports of the companies in which you invest?