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The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, emotion and reality This story appears in our May/June issue, officially ...

By all accounts, freshwater mussels are boring creatures. From the time they fall off their host fish as a larva and settle ...

Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research suggests it could be—especially in the ...

Captive breeding has bought the species a bit more time, according to experts that release hatchlings into the wild, but they doubt their solution is a lasting one ...

Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research suggests it could be-especially in the ...

Currently, information-retrieval tools such as PubMed are by far the most commonly used literature-mining methods among biologists. Methods for identifying the genes, proteins and other entities ...

A study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species.

Scientists say Earth’s oceans are slowly getting darker, according to new findings that reveal a concerning trend affecting ...

Just as nature optimized our internal code over millennia, leaders can now begin to understand and intentionally shape the ...

Unintentionally ridiculous: calling for #scientists to engage with the public in an article that is behind an expensive ...