1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (659+ words) On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways in the current, its eight-tentacled polyps filtering plankton from the water. To divers, the organism known as Litophyton is an…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (652+ words) Cities are among the most demanding environments that animals have ever encountered. Concrete, traffic, artificial light, chemical runoff and constant human disturbance create conditions that differ radically from the habitats in which most species evolved....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (149+ words) To the human eye, a white lizard is simply a white lizard. But to another lizard, the world is a very different place. A new study has revealed that the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis), long celebrated as a textbook…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (849+ words) Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught them doing something no one had formally documented in the field before: feeding on fire coral....

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (110+ words) In the forested mountains of southern Italy, the gray wolf has staged one of Europe’s most remarkable recoveries, and a new study suggests that the secret to its comeback may lie in the hooves of a small, elegant deer. Researchers…...