Starting small and simple — key to success for evolution of mammals
The ancestors of modern mammals managed to evolve into one of the most successful animal lineages -- the key was to start out small...
Your fork could someday be made of sugar, wood powders and degrade on-demand
Single-use hard plastics are all around us: utensils, party decorations and food containers, to name a few examples. These items pile up in landfills,...
Increased droughts are disrupting carbon-capturing soil microbes, concerning ecologists
Soil stores more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, and soil microbes are largely responsible for putting it there. However, the increasing frequency...
How skates learned to fly through water
Genes are not the only drivers of evolution. The iconic fins of skates are caused by changes in the non-coding genome and its three-dimensional...
How did Earth get its water?
Our planet's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years.
Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living
Can humans endure long-term living in deep space? The answer is a lukewarm maybe, according to a new theory describing the complexity of maintaining gravity and...
Dancing in the mud: Cut cable puts an end to bacterial party
You can still be celebrated, even if you're buried in mud. A new study shows that innumerable other bacteria flock around cable bacteria in...
Critical observations of sinking coasts
Using satellite-obtained data from 2007-21, researchers mapped the entire East Coast to demonstrate how the inclusion of land subsidence reveals many areas to be...
Author Correction: Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels
Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01127-1. Published online...
World’s biggest cumulative logjam, newly mapped in the Arctic, stores 3.4 million tons of...
Throughout the Arctic, fallen trees make their way from forests to the ocean by way of rivers. Those logs can stack up as the...
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Gorillas, rhinos, lions and more will soon become extinct without immediate action
A report by 43 wildlife experts warns that without changes now, many of Earth's most iconic species will be lost forever.
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Named for 'el diablo' himself, a new and extremely rare orchid species reveals a wicked heart.
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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Rare blindcat found in US, could prove water-filled caves connect Texas and Mexico
The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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10 magical places saved by endangered species
In our efforts to save animals at risk of extinction, we've saved some extraordinary places as well.
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