For decades, we’ve heard warnings that humanity is teetering on the edge of a new “mass extinction.” But a new study paints a ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study ...

The mechanism of skeletal muscle contraction is a process that relies on calcium signaling. However, the physiological role of calcium-induced calcium ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

OPINION: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to change the long-standing regulatory definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act.

This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

Heeding Science. Environment • September 21, 2025 • Judith Deutsch. This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters ...

From snails to skunks, squirrels to cicadas, most of our neighbors are quiet and seldom interact with us, but they play ...

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...