Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Zoological Society of London (ZSL(link is external)) have worked with a team of scientists from institutions across the globe – to uncover the truth behind the origin of venom in some very unusual mammals.

A study involving scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Queensland provides new insight into how the small brains of mantis shrimp – fierce predators with keen vision that are among the fastest strikers in the animal kingdom – are able to make sense of a breathtaking amount of visual input.

Leakage in Ken Regan field could have contaminated groundwater for livestock and irrigation between 2007 and 2011.

A three-day storm, 40-mph winds cut power to science “cities” set up on Arctic sea ice.

Road networks in the Congo rainforest have significantly increased over the past decades, but not all paths lead to long-term destruction.

Satellite images acquired before and after flooding offer immediate information on the extent of inundation and support assessments of property and environmental damage.

Little brown bats in Canada are already endangered by a devastating fungal disease.

Not many research projects involve a kitchen, but that’s what University of Saskatchewan graduate student Yue He has been using to help develop a better egg replacement for making foods such as mayonnaise.

Providing seeds with a protective coating that also supplies essential nutrients to the germinating plant could make it possible to grow crops in otherwise unproductive soils, according to new research at MIT.

In a world of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, plants should be happy, right?