Tomb more than 1,000 years old found in Panama

Archaeologists have discovered a tomb more than a thousand years old in Panama containing human remains alongside gold and ...

Natural selection can work at many levels, from molecules to ecosystems

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs

Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new ...

Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Australian sea lion pups learn diving and foraging skills from their mothers

Research from Adelaide University and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) has shown for the first ...

2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

Do animals have a future on Hollywood sets?

There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of Lassie in film and on television. Bart the Bear ...

158 giant tortoises reintroduced to a Galapagos island

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they ...

From pets to precision medicine: Study finds striking parallels in feline and human cancers

A study from an international team of experts in veterinary medicine, human medicine and genomics provides the first ...

A hidden reason inner ear cells die—and what it means for preventing hearing loss

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty ...

Cosmologists collaborate to sharpen measurements of the Hubble constant

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified ...

Sometimes less is more: Messier nanoparticles may actually deliver drugs more effectively than tightly packed ones

The tiny fatty capsules that deliver COVID-19 mRNA vaccines into billions of arms may work better when they're a little ...