Science

Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiment...

This drawing is the oldest known sketch of an insect brain

Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerda...

Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, win...

Like flyways for birds, we need to map swimways for fish

Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting f...

Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually lea...

Ghostly white northern lights present new auroral mystery

These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of t...

Fever’s link with a key kind of immunity is surprisingl...

When sick, Nile tilapia seek warmer water. That behavioral fever triggers a spec...

A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shr...

Fever’s link with specialized immunity is surprisingly ...

When sick, Nile tilapia seek warmer water. That behavioral fever triggers a spec...

Another danger looms after the LA fires: Devastating de...

As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful to...

Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a bac...

Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tr...

Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from WHO. Here’s what tha...

When Trump’s move to leave WHO takes effect in a year, it may gut funding for gl...

Galactic chaos at cosmic noon may have stunted Milky Wa...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left on...

A mysteriously large pterosaur finally has an identity

A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t ...

Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed...

In chimpanzees, peeing is contagious

The first study of copycat urination in an animal documents how one chimpanzee p...