Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...

Perhaps no coffee production would be better for biodiversity in these landscapes, but given that a lot of people really like ...

André Hesselbäck uses his photographic memory and higher-education expertise to sniff out rampant credential fraud and degree mills.

Ornithologist Ana Gonzalez studies migration patterns and works with local scientists to protect threatened birds.

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...

Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. It is common ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to ...

Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study 1 involving both mice ...

Nobel prizewinner Alain Aspect’s ‘crackpot’ studies of quantum entanglement have explored the tricks reality plays on us — ...

Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their ...