In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California’s Central ...

From the Florida Keys to the Caribbean Sea, coral reefs, the complex ecosystems that house 25% of marine species, are ...

When a massive wildfire tears through a landscape, what happens to the animals?Credit: Brashares Lab, UC Berkeley When a massive ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 28, 2021) — The California Academy of Sciences has been awarded a $255,400 grant to generate ...

Humans like truffles, as do many mammals. Now new evidence suggests that birds may also seek out and disperse these ...

LA JOLLA—Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell, generating the energy that’s needed to fuel the functions that ...

Researchers have found the two-year heatwave known as ‘the Blob’ may have temporarily dampened the Pacific’s ‘biological pump,’ which shuttles ...

Los Angeles, CA (October 28, 2021) —You can’t spell ‘Smilodon fatalis’ without ‘fatal’, but researchers at La Brea Tar Pits ...

The world’s largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), is a plankton-loving giant that can be found alone or in ...

Diseases of the brain are among the most complex to understand and difficult to treat. Traditional research practices aren’t always ...

Important processes take place among the subunits of the molecules that make up our cells. Defects in these processes or ...

Reducing ship speed and noise levels would increase the probability that endangered West Coast southern resident killer whales will spend ...

Few patients regret having a severely damaged tooth saved by a root canal filling. A University of Gothenburg thesis shows ...

The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment.Credit: Anssi Nokelainen The high-contrast pattern of ...

The rapid scientific advancements that followed the mapping of the human genome have revealed just how staggeringly complex the world ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on Sunday, ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- To help meet the country’s growing demand for veterinary technicians, the University of Missouri has partnered with ...

Researchers around the world have tried many ways, and for many years, to generate neurons in the lab so they ...

Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the ...

Big fish eat smaller fish, but only if there are smaller fish to eat. A new study led by researchers ...