Crickets chirp in the night as Gerardo Marrón calls to an elf owl on a Baja California Sur mountainside in late October.

Students spend two days a week conducting research on Long Island Sound, which culminates with a presentation on their ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

A study from the University of Michigan has identified the countries with the highest levels of narcissism. As well as ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

The paper looked specifically at what might be happening on the moon in terms of geology. As far as we can tell, Europa has ...

Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...

Our role is generally not to end life but to prolong it while decreasing suffering. This goal is best served by honoring the ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.