The space industry is rapidly expanding. About 20,000 satellites already circle Earth, a number that could reach 100,000 by ...

The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world. By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader ...

Good leaders needing to strike a balance between striving to reach goals and keeping their followers with them has deep evolutionary roots, according to a new study on schooling fish. Good leaders ...

Fish are not my idea of a pet. You can’t stroke fish, cuddle fish, or really interact with fish like you can with, say, a puppy . Yet fish are novelties to millions of kids, and big business to the ...

Damselfish had trouble learning to avoid predators, when that lesson was accompanied by a soundtrack of buzzing boat engines. Christopher Intagliata reports. If you've ever gone snorkeling or scuba ...

Some of the fish were trained to expect food in a particular dish. These ‘informed’ individuals were then tested on their ability to reach the dish with a group of eight untrained fish who were ...