science snapshot

By better understanding underwater brine pools, researchers could learn more about the evolution of life in our oceans and the potential for life on other planets.

A visualization technique shows how fruit flies choose which food to eat.

The inner ears of these miniature Brazilian frogs are too small to provide good balance while jumping.

These Pleistocene Epoch giants likely traveled great distances each year to reach breeding grounds.

Human mucus contains glycans that could one day treat harmful Candida albicans infections.

Arboreal salamanders use skydiving techniques to avoid smashing to the ground after a fall.

Researchers find that tissue-resident memory T cells in the corneas of mice engender a lasting immune response.

Tourist photos help identify endangered manta rays and highlight the efficacy of recovery efforts at Komodo National Park.

The potentially-invasive moth hasn’t been seen in a century.

Researchers reveal that a measurable drop in the dry mass of a cell prior to mitosis is caused by waste products being jettisoned before the cell divides.

Inbreeding depression won’t bring the 10 remaining vaquitas to extinction.

Using an acoustic camera, researchers were able to locate individual male wood frogs by their mating calls and determine which songs the females liked best.

What happens when dust travels from the Sahara to the Florida Everglades?

Assumed to have gone extinct more than 30 years ago, Gasteranthus extinctus has been rediscovered by scientists working in Ecuador.

Experimentally nudging the patterning within the compound eyes of insects.

The newly characterized “elegant jellyfish,” roughly the size of a human hand, had been on display in two aquariums in Japan for more than a decade.