Activity levels and daytime sleepiness can be combined into a ‘behavioural clock’ that predicts whether a fish will have a short life or a long one.

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

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Thick, toxic smoke and black, acid rain have blanketed Iran’s capital, Tehran, this week, after missiles damaged oil depots ...

A comprehensive analysis of submissions to the preprint server bioRxiv has revealed a steady growth in the number of scientists uploading their findings to the platform — while neuroscientists have ...

Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

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A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...