In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers...

In the world's forests, an invisible partnership unfolding beneath the soil may hold the key to understanding which plant species...

In the amber deposits of northern Myanmar, preserved for roughly 99 million years, scientists have found the key to unlocking...

In the contested terrain of nanoscale chemistry, where a handful of atoms can rearrange themselves into thousands of possible geometries,...

In one of the most ambitious studies of its kind ever conducted in West Africa, researchers surveyed more than 2,600...

In the tropical lowlands and river valleys of Papua New Guinea, mosquitoes carry far more than the viruses that worry...

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...