When a knot lets go, it doesn't just fall apart. It snaps. That simple observation led Penn Engineers to rethink what a knot ...

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By Lyle Lewis The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness was part of the original class of lands designated under the United States’ 1964 Wilderness Act: 1.3 million acres, or about 526,000 hectares, of steep ...

Anopheles darlingi, a key carrier of malaria, is rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides. Romuald Carinci and Pascal Gaborit/Duchemin lab/Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, CC BY-SA The fight against ...

Many insects, like this malachite butterfly, face critical heat stress under future temperatures. Photo by Kim Holzmann, CC BY Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of ...

Plasmodium malariae protozoan inside red blood cells in the ring-form trophozoite stage, computer illustration [Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] A sweeping population‑genomics effort ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A flesh-eating parastic fly is inching back ever-closer to the United States border as funding for surveillance of the ...