International Primate Day 2025 highlights new discoveries and urgent threats facing chimpanzees, orangutans, lemurs, and more ...

Lightning creates pollution that impacts air quality and climate. Scientists are now tracking its effects in real time from space.

According to a study, a new system called WhoFi identifies people with 95.5% accuracy using Wi-Fi instead of cameras.

Explore the relationship between Greenland and climate change. Discover how the land is rising amid melting ice sheets.

A new study finds life expectancy is still rising, but gains have slowed since 1939 - ending the era of rapid, once-in-a-century leaps.

Plants trigger a rapid immune defense after drought, prioritizing survival over growth when water finally returns.

A study reveals the presence of PFAS forever chemicals in menstrual products, raising questions about their safety and sustainability.

Longer thumbs do much more than help primates climb trees. Thumb size evolution tracks with bigger brains, which hints that hands and minds expanded together across our lineage.

A western seagull surprised biologists by traveling 130 kilometers in a garbage truck, revealing the species' surprising urban adaptation.

Gaia mapped billions of stars and revealed hidden connections in the Milky Way, reshaping how we understand our galaxy.

Ebony trees depend on elephants for survival. Seeds carried in dung avoid rodents, grow stronger, and spread across forests.

Ocean microbes reveal how shedding genes drives survival and symbiosis, offering rare snapshots of evolution in progress.