As the water seeped into the arid ground, it reawakened extremophiles that can lie dormant in dried-out lake and riverbeds ...

T his is Contender, the largest male great white shark that’s been caught, tagged, and released in the Atlantic. Measuring 4.19 meters (13 feet 9 inches), this heavyweight predator has been quietly ...

T he North-Eastern Central African Republic (CAR) is celebrating the first video and photographic evidence of lion cubs in the region in decades. Following the dedicated efforts of conservation teams, ...

That’s why making sure that they contain as much detail as they possibly can is so important – and the US Geological Survey (USGS) appears to have achieved that in its newly-released geologic map of ...

In the new COVID test, it is the binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to a metallic substrate that triggers the reorientation of the crystals. The reason why it works so well in this context is ...

The sheetweb spiders don’t just eat male fireflies the moment they get caught. Nope, that’s too simple. Instead, the sneaky arachnids leave trapped fireflies to continue flashing their bioluminescent ...

"We should be proud to be able to say to the world: we join our will to preserve and restore the legacy of this extraordinary biological and cultural wealth. Today's agreement is historic, it is ...

A destructive hailstorm has literally made its mark on southern Alberta, Canada, after pummeling the region with golf ball-sized hailstones, leaving a 200-kilometer-long, 15-kilometer-wide ...