Researchers discover that when the mind wanders or goes blank, some parts of the brain behave as they do during sleep.

A handful of high schoolers prompt scientists to develop a new approach for calculating the size of the ancient behemoth.

Sergii Mirnyi, one of the people who helped clean up after the 1986 disaster, says he founded Chornobyl University to promote much-needed interdisciplinary research on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

By measuring various pollutants in the immediate vicinity of pregnant women and tracking brain development of their children, researchers in Barcelona aim to untangle any influence the former has on the latter.

High altitude is a natural laboratory for investigating pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia and gestational hypertension, that restrict a fetus’s oxygen supply.

A group of self-styled screamologists are sifting through the noisiness of nonverbal human vocalizations and finding previously undemonstrated forms of communication.

The Scientist checks in on scientists who switched gears to combat the pandemic.

Projects aimed at collecting big data about the ocean’s tiniest life forms continue to expand our view of the seas.

More and more people are traveling around the world to watch the luminous displays of fireflies, but tourism-related light pollution and habitat degradation threaten to snuff out the insects at some locations.  

A tidy-up of a New Zealand storage room led to the sale of naming rights for three new-to-science Galápagos Islands species.

After resigning from the University of New England last year, Geoffrey Bove continues to study the effects of massage on rats in a facility he set up in his house.

Researchers find that the animals can account for others’ behavior and circumstances in their strategies.

The G-baToN prototype transfers GFP between cells, illuminating cell-cell contacts.

Researchers say they have discovered a novel species of comb jelly using video footage, but they couldn’t recover a physical specimen. Is that enough?

With modern technologies unearthing novel bacterial and archaeal species by the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands, manually naming them all is no longer practical, scientists say.

A study of bumble bees exposed to levels of radiation equivalent to those existing in Chernobyl hotspots shows that the insects’ reproduction takes a hit.

A volunteer nature guide teamed up with researchers to discover a unique reproductive role for one vine’s leaves.

Water bears can survive extreme temperatures, oxidative stress, UV radiation, and more, but as work in climate change biology shows, they’re not invulnerable to everything.

Recent research shows that the insect’s microbial community is central to protecting the hive from invaders—both big and small.