Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.

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From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

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Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

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Fleming is one of the founders of the Worcester Native Plant Initiative hosting a workshop Jan. 24 at the Unitarian ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...