Animals

Mowing a solar farm is a stubborn expense. Grass and brush grow up between the panel rows, they shade the cells, and somebody has to keep cutting them. So solar operators have increasingly swapped…

Research antibodies that failed every laboratory test they were put through have been used in hundreds of published papers, and those papers documented a minimum of 8,064 animal samples and 4,424…

In the peat swamp forest at Tuanan, on the Indonesian side of Borneo, two infant orangutans catch sight of each other across a gap in the canopy and the day changes shape. They rush together,…

Jay R. Rooker of Texas A&M University and colleagues have measured plastic particles in the muscle of dolphinfish and yellowfin tuna caught across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Muscle is…

Bone fragments too small to identify by shape, from Denisova Cave and other sites in southern Siberia, carried the DNA of an extinct relative of cattle and yaks that has never been described. These…

Emissions of airborne chemicals from subarctic birch trees rose year after year as moth feeding built toward an outbreak, and the mixture of compounds the trees gave off changed with it. Jolanta…

Catches of Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, have collapsed, and a study of observations from 1993 to 2025 attributes the loss to three…

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles report that a single receptor in the gut sets how much fat the intestine releases into the bloodstream…

Mice engineered so that a piece of one blood vessel protein can no longer be cut away grew normal blood vessels but reacted far less to inflammation, researchers at Heidelberg University and the…

The Met Office on Oct. 5 named the eight trees, butterflies and flowers whose spring timing in southeast England shifts most as temperatures rise, the first results of a pilot it runs with the…

A British and Japanese team reports that tau filaments taken from the brains of people who had Alzheimer's disease or corticobasal degeneration, injected into the brains of ordinary mice, made the…

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Animal and Plant Health Agency have confirmed 2,485 cases of bluetongue in the UK in the 2026 to 2027 season, more than the three…