Since some chemicals become increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they move up the food chain, long-lived, top predators like alligators — which may spend 50 years or more swimming and eating fish in potentially polluted water — are exemplary sentinels of lurking health threats.

Extreme heat poses a significant threat to millions of people worldwide, particularly to burn victims, who have lost the ability to regulate their internal body temperatures through the natural process of homeostasis.

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

As tourism and regional pollution contaminate Nepal’s Khumbu Valley, researchers are zapping the ground to find new potable water sources.

Museums are not anachronisms, but rather, they are an important part of modern biological research with their vast specimen collections.

Leaf-eating tortoise beetles are quite bizarre, converting plant energy into animal protein and making their shields out of their own feces.

Come la condotta illecita di uno “straordinario” scienziato è solo la punta dell’iceberg e cosa possiamo fare a riguardo.

“For a long time, everyone had worked under this paradigm that the earliest animals were the simplest animals.”

放棄清零可能是中國公民期待已久的景象；可是，由清零政策下爭取回來的時間剩餘不多，而中國似乎仍對接下來的開放計劃毫無準備。

Inspired by a similar year-in-review piece from FiveThirtyEight, here are some of the most interesting charts we made in the last 12 months.