Differential evolution has long been one of the workhorses of modern optimization. Since its introduction by Rainer Storn and Kenneth...

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Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught...

In the dim world beneath forest floors, one of nature's most remarkable hitchhiking arrangements has just come into sharper focus....

Bacteria that can eat one of the simplest carbon molecules on Earth—formate—and turn it into useful chemicals have long been...

Thousands of years before clay vessels became an ordinary fixture of human households, the hillsides of the ancient southern Levant...

A sweeping new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the rise and fall of mammal communities across Central...

In the turbid waters where the Yangtze River meets the East China Sea, one of the ocean's least understood chemical...

Hydropower is often celebrated as a cornerstone of the renewable energy transition, providing electricity on demand when solar panels fall...

In a finding that challenges the long-standing assumption that viruses are simply burdens to their hosts, researchers in China and...