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Between 1998 and 2007, along a five-mile stretch of the Kali River in India, three people were reportedly dragged underwater, never to be seen again. On an episode of the Animal Planet show River ...

Miles beneath the Earth's surface, where no light or air reaches, tiny organisms are eking out a meager existence. Yet despite making up an estimated 6 percent of all life on Earth, researchers know ...

Thomas White is a scientific advisor for the environmental charity Invertebrates Australia, and receives funding from The Australian Research Council. The brain is an evolutionary marvel. By shifting ...

As gardeners, we face a huge list of pests, and we need every helping hand we can get to win the battle. Applying beneficial nematodes is a very simple, organic way to combat many common garden pests.

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

Pathogens are organisms that can cause disease. The different types of pathogens and the severity of the diseases that they cause are very diverse. In this article, we look at different pathogens, how ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...