Deep inside plant genomes lies a family of small proteins so structurally rigid that they survive boiling, so chemically versatile...

In the rugged karst landscapes of Southwest China, where limestone and dolomite bedrock jut through thin soils and fissures slice...

In a laboratory in southeastern Brazil, caddisfly larvae abandoned their protective silk-and-detritus cases, slowed their movements, and suffered severe damage...

Some of the most fearsome predators of the Cretaceous world were, according to new research, far lighter than their bone-crushing...

One of the more provocative ideas in modern evolutionary psychology has just been dismantled in a detailed critical review published...

In a finding that overturns a long-standing assumption about who the clever ones are in a bumblebee colony, researchers at...

In the rolling geothermal fields of New Zealand's North Island, where soil temperatures shift dramatically over distances of just a...

Mosquito larvae have long served as sentinels for freshwater contamination, but a new study suggests that the direction in which...

In the warm, productive waters of the southeastern Gulf of California, two species of spiny lobster support a fishery that...

A new study of Southern Ocean copepods shows that ignoring differences in sampling depth intervals can distort statistical inference in...