Keeping leaves in your yard can bolster the number and variety of species around — and the perks go beyond just the fall season. By Margaret Roach Coming soon to a backyard near you: leaf drop. What’s ...

Walmart's "Bricktember Lego Sales" event is live, and this nearly 2,000-piece model of Space history has a massive $63 reduction. Walmart is currently offering some of the best Lego deals and ...

An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honeybees. Bees need to eat ...

Illustration of what the Mollisonia animal would have looked like at the time it lived, more than 500 million years ago. A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion ...

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have produced fertile adult mice from embryos constructed entirely with male genetic material. Mice carrying only paternal DNA developed into fertile ...

Over the last 20 years, thousands of high school and undergraduate students have experienced what it is like to be a scientist thanks to “Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project,” an ...

Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps were used ...

Sharks play a critical role in maintaining the balance of ocean ecosystems. Whether they’re top predators or mesopredators, their presence helps regulate populations of prey species and support the ...

The mainstream bioethics movement aims to destroy human exceptionalism and Judeo-Christian morality as the philosophical foundations of society. Toward that end, the academic discourse repeatedly ...

The Cincinnati Zoo said raising the orchid mantises was “an incredibly unique challenge,” due to their behavioral considerations and dietary needs. Screen grab from the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical ...