Animal behavioral diversity at risk in the face of declining biodiversity
Our environment is changing rapidly, largely as a result of human activities, leading to a significant decline in ...
Antibiotic resistance among key bacterial species plateaus over time, study shows
Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens ...
Bonobos combine calls in similar ways to human language, study finds
Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...
Molecular clock analysis shows bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...
Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here's the psychology behind such a move
Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we ...
Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Study finds eastward shift of settlement areas at end of last Ice Age
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...
Timid tinkerers: Shy mice are more persistent problem-solvers, study finds
Why do some animals solve problems while others don't? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, ...
Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.