Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
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Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Declining bee populations could lead to increased food insecurity and economic losses in the billions.
Researchers believe that war exacerbates climate change, threatening the environment and making future wars more likely.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
Understanding the factors behind recent growth could help us better approach inequality.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
Carbon locked in soils can be emitted by bacteria. Turning up the heat on them releases more carbon.
“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
Affluence could be our real downfall.
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.
Maybe you’ve been wondering if you’re seeing one persistent squirrel or a rotating cast of characters.
Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]