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 ...

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 ...

Fever is one of the best-known mechanisms by which animals combat infectious diseases. Sick animals can increase their body temperature in two ways: through physiological regulation, by altering ...

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 ...

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

Decades of selective breeding and intensive agricultural practices have reshaped cattle genetics—often at the expense of ...

People from different cultural backgrounds are tickled in remarkably similar ways. They laugh, resist and are usually tickled by family members or friends. They are also ticklish in the same body ...

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies.

Over the last decade, researchers have developed two-dimensional materials with fascinating quantum effects that could be harnessed for next-generation technologies.