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Onto each city, some rain must fall. But we can be smarter about how we deal with it. Most of the time rainwater is treated as…

Fish that fart together stay together. In an ocean full of clicking shrimp and singing whales, fish are often imagined as the silent actors. Fish use…

As female elk get older, they also get wiser: they learn how to avoid getting shot by hunters, and appear to adapt their behaviour to the…

Rhinovirus, the pathogen behind the common cold, can cause severe, acute lung disease in children and those with underlying respiratory conditions. Since the 1970s, vaccine development…

Expeditions will delve into the wild, looking for species that haven’t been seen for at least a decade. Somewhere deep in the remote and largely inaccessible…

Long-tailed macaques living near an Indonesian temple have figured out how to run a ransom racket on visiting tourists. The monkeys grab valuables, such as glasses,…