How are birdsongs composed? Listening to the Australian pied butcherbird

An international collaboration between musicians and birdsong scientists has found that in the Australian pied butcherbird…

Exploring Jupiter's moon, Europa, possible with silicon-germanium transistor technology

Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons — it’s also one of most…

Evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas

Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of…

Webb, Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have…

'Mercury Rising' explores treacherous U.S. attempts to control space

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled…

Changes in marine ecosystems going undetected

Existing ways of calculating biodiversity dynamics are not very effective in detecting wholesale species community change…

Agricultural rewilding can help restore the environment and support production of high-welfare food, researchers say

Rewilding landscapes using elements of farming practice can help to restore ecosystems and produce high-welfare, high-quality…

Disarming the body's defenders

A new study shows how certain cancers neutralize T cells to subvert the immune system and…

Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks

Polyethylene plastics — single-use bags and general-purpose bottles — are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes…

Exquisitely thin membranes can slash energy spent refining crude oil into fuel and plastic

Scientists have created a new type of nanomembrane that presents a less energy intensive way to…