Life sciences, from genetics and evolution to medicine and ecology.
A ten-year investigation of museum specimens has identified two previously unrecognized bandicoot species and revealed that South Australia once supported three Isoodon species rather than one.
New research from the University of Sydney finds that living coral tissue survives nearly 75% of crown-of-thorns starfish feeding events, and that controlled populations may boost coral diversity rather than destroy it.
After a laboratory-confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola case reached Kenya from the DRC, the WHO moved to strengthen outbreak preparedness across 22 countries in its Eastern Mediterranean region, as the DRC's own outbreak passed 8,728 cases and a 48.2% case fatality rate.
Cornell researchers found BC200, a human gene with an essential role in neurons that still carries its ancient ability to move through DNA, embedded inside a poxvirus that infected human skin.
Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma following successful surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital to remove the lower lobe of his right lung.
Research by physicist Kostya Trachenko indicates that fundamental physical constants must fall within a narrow band for liquids to flow with viscosities suitable for cellular biology.
Researchers testing a new DNA sequencing technique found a protist that encodes the stop codons TAA and TAG as two different amino acids — the first known case of such a split.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work developing optogenetics, a light-based method that gives researchers precise control over individual nerve cells in living brains.
Ocean Exploration Trust and partners have launched the final 2026 voyage of E/V Nautilus, mapping and diving on unmapped seamounts at the eastern edge of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument with a ten-person Hawaiian science team aboard.
A century-old fossil from the same Egyptian limestone that built the Great Sphinx has been reclassified as a new crocodile species after micro-CT scanning revealed features the original classification missed.
The Ocean Exploration Trust's research vessel has embarked on a 20-day mission to map never-before-seen ridges and seamounts in the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary.
The Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus has begun a 20-day expedition to map previously unmapped deep-sea habitats around Hawaiʻi and within Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary.
A spotted cat from Bolivia's Yungas cloud forest has been confirmed as the first new living wild cat species formally described in over a century.
The Leopardus tilcayo, or tilcayo tiger cat, is a small, spotted feline native to Bolivia's cloud forests, formally described in Current Biology, making it the first new living wild cat species identified since 1923.
A local FedEx office intercepted 191 turtles and tortoises bound for China, prompting a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigation and the animals' transfer to the Dallas Zoo.
An ROV expedition to the previously unvisited Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon off Argentina documented roughly 40 species new to science alongside 29 pieces of human-made litter, including an instant noodle package nearly 2,000 metres down.
A major shift in brain immunology challenges the long-held assumption that microglia persist unchanged for life.
Scientists have rediscovered a thriving coral reef ecosystem off the coast of Benin, West Africa, previously believed to have been dead for over 60 years.
A protein mixture derived from snake blood has shown dramatically higher potency than sheep-derived antivenoms in laboratory tests.
A UC San Diego study shows that E. coli RNA polymerase faithfully transcribes an eight-letter genetic alphabet, with cryo-EM structures revealing the enzyme handles synthetic base pairs through the same mechanisms it uses for natural ones.
A decade-long collaboration between the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Google Research, and HHMI Janelia has produced the first complete wiring map of an adult male animal's central nervous system — 166,700 neurons and roughly 124–125 million synapses in a fruit fly.
Researchers at the universities of York and Sheffield have directly observed the ion-mediated mechanism that allows two negatively charged DNA double helices to pair.