In addition to habitat loss and illegal hunting, the jaguar (Panthera onca) faces another threat that increases its risk of extinction in the South American Atlantic Forest: food scarcity. A study by ...

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.

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

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

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

Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains ...

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

Eggs and poultry provide important sources of protein globally, driving a major industry with large economic impacts.

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 ...

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