Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...

Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

A closer look at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, its core components, supporting evidence, and why new observations are ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...

A yearslong battle between a celebrated hydrologist and a respected environmental juggernaut led to accusations about political motivations and stealing trade secrets ...

An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halves of their body sequentially to ensure a safe landing ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard assessments, calculating that about 90% of them underestimated ...

Lost notes reveal Galileo closely studied the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy, offering fresh insight into his early ...