Orchids don’t always reward their pollinators — sometimes they mislead them. From flowers that mimic insect mates to blooms that smell like rotting fish, orchids have evolved remarkable strategies to ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

Researchers at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy witnessed a biological breakthrough recently when a southern white rhinoceros ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

How they use their time looks different for older and younger adults. And across age groups, it differs by gender. Using data from the American Time Use Survey – conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau – ...

Your kidneys do this automatically by passing your blood through millions of filtering units called nephrons, which have two main parts: the glomerulus and the tubule. The glomerulus is made up of ...

Plants, like people, have a circadian clock and they sense seasonal changes to light and temperature. Plants that bloom in the spring use the longer days and warmer temperatures as seasonal cues that ...

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants, and whales, needs a way for their cells to connect with each other to form tissues, organs, and organize their overall body plan.

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of ...