Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory
Despite having tiny arthropod brains, spiders in a new experiment showed some complex cognitive calculations. ..
Despite having tiny arthropod brains, spiders in a new experiment showed some complex cognitive calculations. ..
The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning. ..
Scientists are investigating why large animals like the mule deer of Wyoming go where they go—and how humans can get out of their way. ..
As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. ..
A global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness. Now a second similar pathogen is on the way. ..
A statistical analysis of chemical tags on DNA may help unify disparate theories of aging. ..
By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology. ..
In the Delaware River and other waterways across the US, conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of bivalves to fight pollution. ..
For a company called Colossal, bringing back the wolf-sized marsupial is one step in a larger, mammoth plan. ..
In the Great Lakes, sea lampreys are a scourge. In Europe, they’re an endangered cultural treasure. Can biologists suppress—and save—the species? ..