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Thomas White is a scientific advisor for the environmental charity Invertebrates Australia, and receives funding from The Australian Research Council. The brain is an evolutionary marvel. By shifting ...

As gardeners, we face a huge list of pests, and we need every helping hand we can get to win the battle. Applying beneficial nematodes is a very simple, organic way to combat many common garden pests.

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

Humans are pretty unique among life on Earth. As far as we know, we're the only living species to evolve a higher intelligence, wear clothes, cook our food, invent smartphones and then get locked out ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...

Bears, wild boars and dogs are the most likely acorn-gulping culprits; most other animals soften and chew them.