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New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth.

Without a fungal support network, trees can lose their ability to adapt to changing climatic conditions, increasing their extinction risk.

A polar bear stands on floating sea ice in the Arctic. The bears rely on sea ice to move throughout their hunting grounds.

The footage give clues to the range of plants the bears eat and how they mate, information important for conservation.

To Sally Warring, protists are an absolutely underrated type of wildlife.   “Protists are very charismatic and interesting,” says Warring, who studies these creatures at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, England. Among this richly diverse group of mostly single-celled eukaryotes (creatures…

A chance discovery by researchers could drastically lower the energy needed for next-generation memory technologies.

If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating.

The secretary bird photograph was among the winners of the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Prize.

A bacterial infection that rarely occurs in the United States hit a woman in Maryland after she cleaned her home aquarium.

An experiment reveals that a bio-solution to humans’ microplastics mess is likely to fall short, but could inspire other ways to attack the problem.