Noise pollution is affecting bird behaviour across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

Elon Musk believes Mars can be settled by 2050, but a Rice University professor's new book reveals the many biological ...

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital ...

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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a rare new addition on Monday, a female elephant calf, marking the zoo’s first ...

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From shrinking bodies and weakened immune systems to dangerous childbirth complications, life on the Red Planet could fundamentally alter what it means to be human, according to Rice University ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

Scientists, academics, and some intended parents agree that better data is needed. “We need more research. You know, we need to design better studies,” said Bryan McColgan, a writer and trained ...