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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health.

Do animals have a sense of humor? What do other worlds smell like? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

Some of its diet comes from the tiny crustaceans and other small animals that have been swept up by the trailing tentacles of jellies. It’s been suggested that the fish's unusual visual system helps ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. The real size of many countries is distorted and this is often reflected in perceived power and politics. Now, ...