How gliding animals fine-tuned the rules of evolution

A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations—adaptations that bring new abilities…

The Prisoner's Dilemma: Exploring a strategy that leads to mutual cooperation without non-cooperative actions

A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto from Rissho University has analyzed which strategies would be…

DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have disproved the prevailing theory of how DNA binds…

Study confirms Monterey Bay Aquarium surrogate-reared sea otters helped restore threatened population

The population of threatened southern sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Central California, has…

Dutch reinforce major dike as seas rise, climate changes

Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and…

W. Antarctica's crumbling ice sheet to redraw global coastline

The fate of the world’s coastal regions and the hundreds of millions of people who inhabit…

Your dead palm is a woodpecker home—and that's good

At the very edges of urbanization, Northern Flicker woodpeckers live in dead palm trees raising their…

Bright fireball explodes over Tasmania and Victoria, Australia

A bright fireball was recorded streaking through the night sky between Tasmania and Victoria, Australia around…

Bee biodiversity barometer on Fiji

The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but climate change, noxious weeds and multiple…

Gabon minister hails country's responsiblity after historic forest deal

Prevention is better than cure. Click here for original story, Gabon minister hails country’s…