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A new study looks at metabolic processes in the previously understudied microbes called Asgard archaea in the soils of freshwater wetlands.

Protein large language models identify ways to make antibiotics better at targeting dangerous bacteria, without being toxic to humans.

The largest males have bigger weapons, but smaller males have other advantages.

In rainforests in Gabon, amphibians with larger toes relative to their body length are found higher in the forest canopy.

Researchers head to Kenya to unlock the weaknesses of invasive buffelgrass to combat it here in Texas.

A new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools — most of whom are female — are able to eat larger prey and reduce tooth damage when their preferred prey becomes depleted.

Researchers find that Eurasia’s East-West orientation likely did not aid in cultural domination.

The matador bug’s vibrant red hind-leg flags are neither a mating display nor a distraction tactic, they’re part of an elaborate defense strategy.

Graduate students Jessica Valdes and Keenan Riordan were on a team that found humans may have dispersed during arid times along “blue highways.”

New research solves a mystery as to why mitochondria in some plants evolve faster than others.