A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking...
A decade-long experiment on the use of high-intensity fire to control bush encroachment in South Africa’s Kruger National Park (KNP)...
Destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts for vent fields hundreds of kilometers away, suggests...
Plants can move in ways that might surprise you. Some of them even show “sleep movements,” folding or raising their...
In a new study conducted by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Madison-Wisconsin, seven new species...
Based on data that span the past 120 years, scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that the mosquitoes...
Bacteria can pass genetic information among themselves to gain an advantage over competitors in their environment. One of the ways...
The spread of antibiotic resistance, whereby infectious bacteria are able to defeat the drugs intended to kill them, may not...
by University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School...
Researchers from the University of Southampton and Ohio University have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs,...
Fish, the most biodiverse vertebrates in the animal kingdom, present evolutionary biologists a conundrum: The greatest species richness is found...
Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change. Despite being...
