Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, are often portrayed as highly specialized molecular machines: particles that recognize a host, inject...

A fossilized growth signal in the bones of a 236-million-year-old cynodont may have revealed one of the earliest known examples...

Artificial intelligence is moving into one of the most complicated laboratories on Earth: the modern city. In a new study...

Lyda Hill Philanthropies has awarded $2.7 million to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to expand wildfire research across the...

Ancient trees are often treated as living time capsules, celebrated for surviving centuries of drought, storms, disease and human disturbance....

Singapore’s historic shophouses have long been read as fragments of the city’s past: rows of colourful façades, covered walkways and...

A hidden microbial process is reshaping the flow of nitrogen into Arctic fjords, potentially accelerating ecological change in some of...

Dogs may be communicating with humans through brain networks shaped by two very different forces: generations of selective breeding and...

Cities across the Mediterranean are entering a dangerous new era of heatwaves, flash floods, drought and water scarcity. As concrete...

Dogs have been living alongside humans for thousands of years, but new archaeological, genetic and ethnographic evidence suggests that their...