EU researchers are turning to the world's top pollinator in an attempt to reverse biodiversity loss and help fruit growers.
Biological sex can be an important factor in predicting how animal and plant populations respond to temperature changes, from sea turtles whose sex is determined by the heat on the beach where they hatch, to female Arctic ...
Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time—even if that means using more energy in the process—to provide an immediate energy boost for the colony.
Have you heard the phrase "nature positive?" It's suddenly everywhere.
In 1960, legendary physicist Freeman Dyson published his seminal paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation," wherein he proposed that there could be extraterrestrial civilizations so advanced that ...
Artificial intelligence could make studying birds easier, thanks to the work of a University of Alberta student.
Building artificial habitat structures for wildlife comes with risks and rewards, according to new research out of Murdoch University—and those creating them must use rigorous science to underpin their use, or risk doing ...
City life favors species that are adaptable and, among other things, not too fussy about what they eat. A worldwide consortium of scientists calls the resulting collection of characteristics "urban trait syndrome."
The calls of owls come to me most nights through the open window of my bedroom. Mostly it is the soft, repeated, rhythmic "more … pork, more … pork" of a pair of boobooks.
Heliconius butterflies are capable of spatial learning, scientists have discovered.
