A researcher's keen eye and spirit of curiosity led to the discovery of a new method for cell engineering—a finding that ...

An archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the ...

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found ...

In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are ...

A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies. Reporting in Current Biology, researchers demonstrate how horses produce high-frequency sounds that ...

Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...

Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To ...

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a handful ...

Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these ...