Reindeer grazing changes the vegetation of northern pine forests below ground as well as above it. In a recent study in ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

A big-eyed, venomous primate that had not been documented in scientific literature since the 1930s has been hiding in plain sight on the Indonesian island of Bangka, turning up in backyards, along ...

A shark that has become a viral sensation in South Korea was coaxed out of a canal in which it was stuck, authorities said on ...

Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

Populations of many pollinators, including bumblebees, have been crashing over the last few decades, thanks to the widespread use of chemical pesticides, loss of habitat and the acceleration of ...

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have partnered with colleagues in Göttingen, Berlin, Paris and Essen to develop new optogenetic tools that can selectively inhibit cellular activity through ...

Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at ...

An absence of women scientists in U.K. exam board specifications for science could be a factor in the disproportionate number of girls dropping STEM subjects at 16 and contribute to the gender gap in ...

By the time a child reaches the age of 4 or 5, most parents and caregivers have heard about "kindergarten readiness." But what if a 5-year-old still struggles to count to 10, sing the alphabet song or ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...