The Quest to Tally Alaska’s Wild ‘Warm-Blooded’ Bumblebees
Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise. Now researchers and conservationists want to get a head count. ..
Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise. Now researchers and conservationists want to get a head count. ..
Researchers have found evidence in humans that individual neurons time their firing to a deeper beat. But there’s a mystery: What does it mean? ..
Aristolochia microstoma finds love by smelling like death. Coffin flies can’t resist. ..
Some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved long before centralized nervous systems. ..
Researchers only get a chance to study Brood X every 17 years. WIRED came for the ride—and got up close to thousands of hatching cicadas. ..
To test bats’ sense of the speed of sound, researchers put them in an atmosphere that alters it. No word on whether the helium made the bats sound funny. ..
Biologists have long believed that these animals rely on magnetic sensing to migrate across oceans. Someone finally figured out how to prove it. ..
For male tanager birds, carotenoid feather pigments just aren't flashy enough. They have another way to make their colors really pop. ..
Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout ..
A project to teach threatened marsupials to avoid feral cats is among a host of "assisted evolution" efforts to help animals in the face of climate change. ..