When critically endangered Hainan gibbons started making dangerous leaps across a new gully, researchers came up with an alternative route.
Glowing Venus flytraps reveal how calcium buildup in the cells of leaves acts as a short-term “memory” that helps the plants identify prey.
Tardigrades have a newly discovered trick up their sleeve: fluorescence.
The annual competition features snapshots that use microscopy to reveal some of Earth’s smallest hidden marvels.
In 2011, scientists discovered that tiny pufferfish were sculpting Japan’s underwater “mystery circles.” Now, more circles have emerged in Australia.
A gene-editing tool developed just eight years ago that has “revolutionized the life sciences” nabbed the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Researchers at Powdermill Nature Reserve near Pittsburgh spotted a bird with pink male coloring on half of its body and yellow female hues on the other.
Comparing brain scans of people and pups shows that faces hold no special meaning to the brains of dogs, a new study suggests.
The 2020 medicine Nobel recognizes work that found that a novel virus was to blame for chronic hepatitis and led to a test to screen blood donations.