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An hour’s drive southwest of Bangkok, Thailand, tucked into a curve of the Mae Klong River, lies the village of Amphawa. Until recently, tourists flocked here to watch a spectacular evening light show. Thousands of male Pteroptyx malaccae fireflies would gather in the three-story-tall mangrove trees that line the Mae Klong and flash in synchrony.

A tidy-up of a New Zealand storage room led to the sale of naming rights for three new-to-science Galápagos Islands species.

Just as marine creatures occupy different depths of the ocean, snow algae species are found at different elevations in the mountains, according to a new study that sheds light on the organisms responsible for the famous but poorly understood phenomena of green and red snow.

Scientific studies are skewed toward plants with colorful and conspicuous blooms, according to researchers who argue that these findings indicate an ‘aesthetic bias’ in plant research.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

Neural connections in the mouse neocortex can release multiple packages of neurotransmitters per electrical impulse, a study finds.

Marcus Eriksen was studying plastic pollution in the Arabian Gulf when he met camel expert Ulrich Wernery. “[Ulrich] said, ‘You want to see plastic? Come with me.’ So we went deep into the desert,” Eriksen recalls. Before long, they spotted a camel skeleton and began to dig through sand and bones.

Giant hornets from Asia can quickly kill off an entire honeybee hive. But bees have found one stinky way to fend off these predators. Their tactic: smearing the entrance to their hives with animal dung.

On Saturday before dawn, entomologists launched their attack on a colony of snoozing murder hornets. Clad in cartoonish protective suits and brandishing a vacuum hose, they sucked 85 wasps alive from the nest and suffocated the rest with carbon dioxide and expanding foam.

As the COVID-19 pandemic marches on, new, rapid tests offer hope for pumping the brakes on the virus’ spread.