A small group of fire ants carrying “selfish DNA” can transform an entire colony’s structure, new research shows.

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

Reefs cover less than 1 percent of the ocean floor yet shelter about a quarter of all marine species and buffer shorelines ...

Rising nighttime temperatures are leading to an increase in sleep apnea cases, with a new study pointing to health and ...

The Vector-HaSH model reveals how place cells and grid cells help with memory storage, by indexing without erasing previous ...

Tufts University studied 46,000 adults over 20 years and found that drinking 1-2 cups of coffee daily reduces death risk by ...

Swansea study of 509 European bird species found protected areas boost species numbers but fail to maintain food web ...

Pangolins are hunted mainly for meat across Africa, with local demand - not trade - driving their decline toward extinction.

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware tweak, better shielding around onboard avionics, could muffle stray radio ...

Scientists have raised the first viable mouse with two male parents into adulthood after editing imprinting genes.

Bronze Age graves in Hungary show millet replaced meat, mobility dropped, inequality shrank, and diets changed.

The largest cloud of energetic particles ever seen was recently discovered, revealing new clues about galaxy cluster ...