A surprise encounter with a cactus might be a sticky and painful situation. However, there’s a particular cactus that also ...

Just as ecological theory arose from natural history to draw generalized conclusions from specific observations of organisms in their environment, so microbiologists need theory to interpret the ...

The day dawned with streaks of coral and gold stretching across the horizon. The cardinals and catbirds were serenading, and ...

Storks have returned to part of the UK after 600 years thanks to an "extraordinary" rewilding effort. Ten white storks have ...

If you’re a mosquito and it’s a warm spring afternoon, you’re out cruising the air currents on your tiny wings. But as you ...

Author Alan Weisman is a well-traveled man. He has reported from all seven continents and in more than sixty countries, weaving through jungles and slogging through swamps, commun ...

Furthermore, individual targets, especially enzymes, are well conserved suggesting that tests on evolutionarily distant organisms would be highly relevant for certain drugs. We propose that the ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

† † Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ‡ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States § Department of Civil ...

These lush ecosystems once covered a fifth of the country, but today it’s barely one per cent. An ambitious project could ...

SOUTH STRAFFORD — This year marks a major milestone for Vermont’s oldest forestry nonprofit. The Vermont Woodlands Association (VWA) is celebrating its 110th anniversary and invites the public to join ...

A Newcastle tattoo artist organised a guided forage around the woods, scouring high and low for inspiration for custom tattoos. "I had the idea of combining my two favourite things, which are ...