The ability to link language to the world around us is a crowning feature of our species. For very young infants, it is not yet about...

A “devil worm” manages to live in hellish conditions. First described in 2011, H. mephisto is one of the deepest-living land animals...

Researchers have shown in mice that designer antibodies can curb the growth of tumors by targeting two of cancer’s most infamous...

Looking for a bird's-eye view of human impacts? A new study, published in the California Polytechnic State University Library, provides...

Scientists discovered a new evolutionary mechanism that allows cnidarians (jellyfish and sea anemones) to adapt to new ecosystems....

Tuatara have two distinct copies of the genetic instruction manual for making mitochondria. It’s the first evidence of a full additional...

Wide swings in blood sugar can mess with sleep. Food’s relationship with sleep gets even more muddled when signs of Alzheimer’s disease...

Whether or not Neanderthals could speak has been studied for more than five decades—and the question is still being researched because no...

Gleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower: It’s a carnivore. A species of false...

A particularly messy form of cell death sparks severe inflammation in patients receiving CAR-T cell immunotherapy for blood cancers,...

Pathogenic fungi are also coming for our coffee, sugarcane, bananas and other economically important crops. Annually, fungal diseases...

In a recent Brazilian study, scientists discovered that octopi enter two sleep cycles at night. When they sleep, Octopi alternate between...

The swirling green cones that make up the head of Romanesco cauliflower also form a fractal pattern — one that repeats itself on multiple...

During mating season, ponds resound with the sounds of hundreds of males from many different species crying out to potential mates....

Scientists tracked rhythms of how genes were turned on and off in malaria parasites in infected mice hosts. The researchers put some mice...

Most people, when they think of butterflies, imagine big colorful wings. So it was much to scientists' surprise when they found a species...

Most of us could use more sleep. We feel it in our urge for an extra cup of coffee and in a slipping cognitive grasp as a busy day grinds...

Sperm appears to be unfazed by long stints in outer space. In the longest biological experiment on the International Space Station yet,...

Tiny robots can operate as nerve cell connectors, bridging gaps between two distinct groups of cells. These microscopic patches may lead...

Microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the...