Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting ...

During courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It's the result of ...

In a clinical trial, an experimental antibody reduced lean-mass loss in people on a GLP-1 drug. Whether that improves health ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and ...

A shrimp vaccine for commercial use could protect the environment and prove vaccines aren’t just for vertebrates.

New observations suggest the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s core is blowing gas away from the central behemoth.

Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study ...

The cold-loving yeasts from Ötzi’s remains suggest the Iceman’s microbiome may not be completely frozen in time.

With no training, bumblebees can work out how to use a ball like a ladder to feed on sugar from an out-of-reach flower.

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than ...