What made prehistoric communities resilient? Ancient social networks may hold the answer

A new study led by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem challenges long-held assumptions about how prehistoric hunter-gatherers survived in the Southern Caucasus between 57, ...

Underwater expedition charts seaweed forests in the remote waters of southern Patagonia

At the icy, wind-swept tip of South America lies Inútil Bay, a remote marine environment in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago ...

How thousands of nature's longest sperm squeeze into a tiny fruit fly

When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

Webb spots the birth of a giant galaxy and a supermassive black hole

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to catch an extraordinary glimpse of a massive galaxy taking shape in ...

Researchers reveal Hong Kong as a 'biodiversity ark' for yellow-crested cockatoos and expand nesting support

A new genomic study by researchers from the HKU School of Biological Sciences (SBS) has found that Hong Kong's introduced ...