Join RVA Mag's Salon de Résistance on Sept 25 for “The Death of Science in America," a live conversation on funding cuts to ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

The Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping ...

The shocking truth behind the platypus’s venomous sting.

There is something, however, that distinctly separates us humans from the vast majority of mammals: we live long past our reproductive years. Most living things continue reproducing until they ...

In a study published last week in the journal Science, researchers suggest the evolution of thumbnails might have helped some ...

When headline after headline highlights tons of pangolin scale seizures in Nigeria, it’s easy to presume that most pangolin ...

When it comes to color, mammals are hardly the most vibrant creatures of the animal kingdom. Their fur often comes in drab ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

HPAI’s global spread has been unprecedented, affecting areas previously unaffected by the disease, including Latin America ...