Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Sending scuba divers down to survey corals is time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, scientists have developed other ...

Recent work by Senti et al (2025) reports that retrotransposons and endogenous retroviruses occupy specific spatiotemporal ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.