A combination of public opposition, intense regulations, and rising costs in the EU make conditions in China and elsewhere attractive for studying monkeys.

The European Court of Justice has decided that organisms made with precision techniques such as CRISPR will be subject to the same rules as transgenic plants or animals.

The plan would also allow non-EU countries to pay to participate in EU research programs, albeit without wielding “decisional power.”

Ornithologists tagged 27 juvenile birds to track the way they use updrafts of air heated by the sun to migrate over long distances.

The increase is associated with travel to Europe, where large outbreaks are occurring.

The budget is smaller than what some researchers hoped for, and too high for at least one EU member state.

The pesticides, which studies show are harmful to bees, will be prohibited in open fields by the end of 2018.

The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.

A controversial hypothesis suggests that jellyfish may one day rule the oceans, and Mola mola may tell us if we are approaching a tipping point.