Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that's the natural result of a green ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

More than half of Earth's terrestrial surface is rangeland—vast open areas of native vegetation, suitable for grazing. These ...

In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are silenced when the insect walks or grooms. This on-off switch may help the nervous system to shift between two states: one helps keep the body ...

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...

Bird flu hits cats particularly hard. Just last week, an infected cat was euthanized in California after eating raw pet food.

Organic beekeeping can support healthy and productive honey bee colonies, and a new study led by researchers in Penn State's ...

When Russia mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many outsiders expected the worst. Predictions swirled that the ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a joint research team has become the first in the world to elucidate the reconstruction mechanism of copper alloy catalysts during ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...