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Extinct, giant arthropods, long assumed to be top predators of ancient seas, didn’t have sharp enough eyesight to be refined hunters.

New software that can trace the individual paths of every animal in a massive swarm could help biologists unravel the secrets of collective behavior.

Despite a lack of vision, a blind cavefish can count. Sort of.

Retrieving sound from video recordings of inanimate objects can have surprising applications.

An issue highlighting advances in vision research

Color vision as we know it resulted from one fortuitous genetic event after another.

Scientists are taking to social media to challenge weak research, share replication attempts in real time, and counteract hype. Will this online discourse enrich the scientific process?

Nearly 600 soil samples from New York City’s famous park reveal that the urban environment harbors just as much biodiversity as natural ecosystems across the globe.

Researchers are putting a fresh crop of phage-based products to agricultural and medical use, on farms and in early-stage clinical trials.

Documenting the epigenetic landscape of human innate immune cells reveals pathways essential for training macrophages.

Exercise-induced muscle metabolites protect the brain from stress-induced depression in a mouse model. 

Without a solid understanding of how the soil microbiome contributes to atmospheric carbon, researchers are struggling to determine whether dirt-dwelling bacteria could impact—and be impacted by—climate change.