11 June 2021
Sexual selection, a mechanism of evolution that can drive the appearance of bright feathers and elaborate horns, is more widespread among females than many researchers expected
8 June 2021
Consumers in the US spend more money when grocery shopping online, but spend less on sweets and desserts than when they shop in store
3 June 2021
Sharks living in the open ocean experienced a previously unknown mass extinction event about 19 million years ago that wiped out nearly 90 per cent of the predators
3 June 2021
Surveillance of right whales in the North Atlantic show that individuals born today will grow to be a metre shorter, on average, than whales born in the early 1980s
3 June 2021
University students tend to get lower grades if their classes and lectures begin early in the morning, because they struggle to wake up early enough to attend them
1 June 2021
Elephants use extreme suction to hold water and food in their trunks, often inhaling at speeds that are nearly 30 times the speed we exhale air when we sneeze
26 May 2021
Newly discovered plant fossils from China, dating back more than 125 million years, may help to establish which seed plants evolved into modern flowering plants
25 May 2021
Garden bird feed is the single most common food source found in a sample of blue tit faeces collected across Scotland
24 May 2021
As Greenland’s ice grinds up underlying rocks it frees up the toxic mercury they contain, potentially contaminating the aquatic life that Indigenous communities rely on for food
18 May 2021
Devastating wildfires that swept the central Amazon in 2015 caused a loss of around 27 per cent of vegetation in the region over the next three years
