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African elephants

DNA from seized elephant ivory unmasks 3 big trafficking cartels in Africa

Scientists can sleuth out wildlife crime and aid law enforcement by tracing elephant DNA from ivory seizures back to the source.

By Laurel Hamers | 2:00pm, September 19, 2018

Animals

Reviews & Previews | Animals

‘Poached’ offers a deep, disturbing look into the illegal wildlife trade

By Sarah Zielinski | 7:00am, September 14, 2018

News in Brief | Animals

This flying robot could reveal secrets of the aerial world of insects

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, September 13, 2018

News | Animals

Before it burned, Brazil’s National Museum gave much to science

By Helen Thompson | 5:53pm, September 07, 2018
Biophysics

Reviews & Previews | Biophysics

Smart plants can teach us a thing or two

By Rachel Ehrenberg | 7:00am, September 18, 2018

News in Brief | Biophysics

Here’s how clumps of honeybees may survive blowing in the wind

By Emily Conover | 11:00am, September 17, 2018

News | Biophysics

Soaring spiders may get cues from electric charges in the air

By Laurel Hamers | 4:48pm, July 05, 2018
Conservation

Feature | Conservation

More than 2 billion people lack safe drinking water. That number will only grow.

By Alexandra Witze | 7:00am, August 16, 2018

News in Brief | Conservation

With one island’s losses, the king penguin species shrinks by a third

By Susan Milius | 4:35pm, August 01, 2018

Reviews & Previews | Conservation

Got an environmental problem? Beavers could be the solution

By Sarah Zielinski | 10:49am, July 27, 2018
Ecology

Wild Things | Ecology

A gentoo penguin’s dinner knows how to fight back

By Sarah Zielinski | 2:12pm, September 04, 2018

News | Ecology

In the animal kingdom, what does it mean to be promiscuous?

By Betsy Mason | 7:00am, August 13, 2018

News in Brief | Ecology

The giant iceberg that broke from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf is stuck

By Leah Rosenbaum | 7:00am, July 23, 2018
Evolution

It's Alive | Evolution

These songbirds violently fling and then impale their prey

By Susan Milius | 6:00am, September 07, 2018

News in Brief | Evolution

How the poppy got its pain-relieving powers

By Laurel Hamers | 2:00pm, August 30, 2018

The Science Life | Evolution

There’s method in a firefly’s flashes

By Leah Rosenbaum | 7:00am, August 24, 2018
Fungi

News | Fungi

A deadly fungus is infecting snake species seemingly at random

By Laurel Hamers | 4:35pm, December 20, 2017

News in Brief | Fungi

How a mushroom gets its glow

By Susan Milius | 9:00am, April 27, 2017

Science Ticker | Fungi

How a mushroom gets its glow

By Susan Milius | 9:00am, April 27, 2017
Microbes

Feature | Microbes

How plant microbes could feed the world and save endangered species

By Amber Dance | 11:00am, September 06, 2018

News | Microbes

A newly approved drug could be a boon for treating malaria

By Leah Rosenbaum | 10:00am, August 09, 2018

Science Ticker | Microbes

Rat lungworm disease is popping up in the mainland United States

By Leah Rosenbaum | 9:00am, August 03, 2018
Paleontology

Film | Paleontology

What ‘The Meg’ gets wrong — and right — about megalodon sharks

By Carolyn Gramling | 12:41pm, August 10, 2018

News in Brief | Paleontology

Fossil teeth show how a mass extinction scrambled shark evolution

By Carolyn Gramling | 11:00am, August 02, 2018

News in Brief | Paleontology

Paleontologists have ID’d the world’s biggest known dinosaur foot

By Cassie Martin | 7:00am, July 24, 2018
Plants

News | Plants

The most ancient African baobabs are dying and no one knows why

By Susan Milius | 7:00am, June 18, 2018

News | Plants

A caterpillar outwits corn defenses by gorging on fattening ‘junk’ food

By Susan Milius | 7:00am, May 22, 2018

Feature | Plants

Meet the speedsters of the plant world

By Dan Garisto | 12:11pm, May 16, 2018

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