The evolutionary paths that created snatching forelimbs in insects multiple times moved in a similar direction but didn't end ...

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Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and related compounds, have generally ...

As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...

Hidden beneath the water's surface is a botanical world that is among nature's most innovative and ecologically important.As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how ants, dolphins and birds use inter-species cooperation to survive ...

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and related compounds, have generally received attention for their ...

For decades, archaeologists have assumed that members of the Palaeoindian Clovis culture used a weapon called an atlatl to ...

A new statistical study challenges one of archaeology's longest-standing assumptions, raising fresh questions about how North ...

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin's Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian ...

Killer whales in Mexico’s Gulf of California were filmed by drone flipping juvenile great white sharks onto their backs and ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...