From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

A large U.S. health records study suggests that difficulty seeing blood in urine may put color-blind patients at higher risk.

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A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

Signals transmitted via leaves can warn neighboring plants of stressful events, making the group collectively more resilient ...

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alleviate some effects of snakebite, possibly by ...

The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees to shame.

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...