At COP16, a meeting under the Convention of Biological Diversity, countries will negotiate a plan to manage access to DSI, or ...

While the research bolsters the case that COVID-19 emerged from animals, it does not resolve the polarized and political debate over whether the virus instead emerged from a research lab in China.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

Scientists identify first known outbreak of rabies in seals - Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some ...

The only other known case of rabies in a sea mammal was in a ringed seal in Norway's Svalbard islands in the early 1980s.

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.

Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

Scientists have discovered the cuisine preferences of two resident killer whale populations, also known as orcas: the Alaska residents and the southern residents, which reside primarily in the Salish ...

In Puerto Rico and elsewhere, researchers are attempting to restore coral reefs and make corals more resilient to ocean heat ...