The jellyfish highway. By Stefano Piraino, University of Salento and Bella Galil, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research For a month or two every summer, beaches across the south-eastern…

The fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has spread to bat colonies throughout eastern North America over the past few years, causing bat populations to crash and leading to various claims…

For a short window, it appeared that bees were dying off. Environmentalist were quick to blame a new kind of pesticide, Neonicotinoids, known in short form as neonics, but then it turned out that the…

Sometimes you don't need to travel to the unexplored corners of the globe to discover a new species of plant. Sometimes they can be really close to home, you just have to spend 40 years of your life…

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) and various genetically modified relatives are the most popular and economically significant members of the genus Cornus in the…

How has domestication humbled house cats? Moyan Brenn/Flickr, CC BY-ND By Bryonie Scott, The Conversation House cats are a great source of companionship for many people – 3 million cats are kept as…

When is a cat not a cat? Biodiversity Heritage Library (adapted), CC BY By Ben Holt, Imperial College London and Knud Andreas Jønsson, Imperial College London A cat is, of course, a cat. Lions are…

When it comes to human life, we never think about culling the herd, instead the goal is to keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. But in nature, that isn't the best approach. Some plant…

In World War II, did people with bird feeders have substantially different chirping friends than we see today? Probably not, but a group of researchers warns than 2075 might look a lot less like then…

A reference genome for coffee trees has been sequenced for the first time. It improves understanding of the organization of the genome, which is academic, but it also offers new…