science snapshot

The potentially-invasive moth hasn’t been seen in a century.

Researchers reveal that a measurable drop in the dry mass of a cell prior to mitosis is caused by waste products being jettisoned before the cell divides.

Inbreeding depression won’t bring the 10 remaining vaquitas to extinction.

Using an acoustic camera, researchers were able to locate individual male wood frogs by their mating calls and determine which songs the females liked best.

What happens when dust travels from the Sahara to the Florida Everglades?

Assumed to have gone extinct more than 30 years ago, Gasteranthus extinctus has been rediscovered by scientists working in Ecuador.

Experimentally nudging the patterning within the compound eyes of insects.

The newly characterized “elegant jellyfish,” roughly the size of a human hand, had been on display in two aquariums in Japan for more than a decade.