A “peculiar” new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, USA, following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years.

In 2024, malignant tumors caused more than 21,300 deaths in Austria, 4.7% more than in 2014. Faced with a similarly pressing global challenge, scientists are striving to better understand what drives cancer cells to grow, spread, and invade healthy tissue. In Science Advances, a team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) now offers new clues: Using a simplified model, the researchers show how a chaotic environment around tumor cells can promote their invasive behavior. This theoretical concept will need to be examined further in real tumor tissue.

Asian elephants can resist their impulses and choose a more rational course of action, according to a study published September 9, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One by Sydney Hope of Hunter College, New York and colleagues.

Dolphin milk microRNAs may be substantially similar to those of terrestrial mammals, with preliminary analysis indicating potentially similar lactation despite dolphins' evolution to an aquatic lifestyle

Researchers uncover evidence that betel nut - one of the world’s most widely used psychoactive substances - was consumed in Indonesia up to 25,000 years ago. By combining archaeological and biochemical analysis, the team identified distinctive tooth wear and traces of arecoline in ancient human remains from Sulawesi.

Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors and adjust their actions when circumstances change—a cognitive ability that may help explain the animals’ sophisticated problem-solving skills and social behavior. The findings could ultimately contribute to conservation strategies aimed at reducing conflict between elephants and people, particularly in areas of Asia where elephants and human communities increasingly share the same landscapes.

Targeting NINJ1 protein could make donor livers more resilient

She’s a Grammy Award-winning international superstar, and now, Taylor Swift is also a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.

Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development st have been awarded a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to study how exposure to e-cigarette components and flavors during pregnancy affect fetal respiratory immune development and the risk of respiratory viral infections in offspring.