Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting ...

In addition to habitat loss and illegal hunting, the jaguar (Panthera onca) faces another threat that increases its risk of ...

The first study to measure the full economic value of bottom trawling in Europe's waters calculates that the destructive ...

Scorpions wield some of the natural world's most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers.

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it's because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces.

Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Nagoya City University, and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute ...

Shielding materials are essential in key modern industrial settings—such as spacecraft, nuclear power plants, semiconductor ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have uncovered a hidden property of light that allows it to twist, spin and ...

After nearly four decades, the world's longest-running soil warming experiment is revealing a surprising result: even "stable ...

Researchers at Skoltech have developed an ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on silicon photonics and plasmonics ...

The idea that information should flow freely is deeply embedded in the design of social media. The assumption is that the ...