Science

The existing boundaries of national parks and other habitat preserves aren’t enough to protect more than three-quarters of the world’s well-studied insects.The finding, reported February 1 in One Earth, shows that people who design nature preserves “don’t really think...

With some careful twisting and stacking, MIT physicists have revealed a new and exotic property in “magic-angle”...

In shallow coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, a seagrass-scrounging cousin of the manatee is in trouble. Environmental strains like pollution and habitat loss pose a major threat to dugong (Dugong dugon) survival, so much so that...

Prairie voles have long been heralded as models of monogamy. Now, a study suggests that the “love hormone” once thought essential for their bonding — oxytocin — might not be so necessary after all.Interest in the romantic lives of...

As far back as roughly 25,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have jotted down markings to communicate information about the behavior of their prey, a new study finds.These markings include dots, lines and the symbol “Y,” and often...

Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez saw the future of energy on a broiling-hot day last September.An email alert hit her inbox from the San Diego Gas & Electric Company. “Extreme heat straining the grid,” read the message, which was also pinged as a...

Pink waves at Torrey Pines State Beach, temporarily dyed as part of a study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San...

Treating cancer with combinations of drugs can be more effective than using a single drug. However, figuring...

Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds.Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies and behaviors that facilitate diving....

The Arctic today is a hostile place for most primates. But a series of fossils found since the 1970s suggest that wasn’t always the case.Dozens of fossilized teeth and jaw bones unearthed in northern Canada belonged to two species...