Women, non-native English speakers and those from lower-income countries published fewer English-language peer-reviewed papers than men, native English speakers and those from higher-income countries, according to a study published September 18^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tatsuya Amano from The University of Queensland, Australia, and colleagues.

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers detail their development of a new model that — using a tree census and genomic data collected from multiple species in a forest — can predict future fluctuations in the relative abundance of those species.

Rice scientists’ custom, large-scale neurorecording array sheds light on how the brain keeps the world looking familiar.

A new study led by Boston University marine biologists reveals that heat waves are threatening the future of the fish made famous by Finding Nemo

A new study, led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, captured details of glioblastoma that had never before been seen and revealed a surprise finding: Glioblastoma cells that “cluster” together with other cells of the same type are less deadly than those that disperse from these clusters.

A new study publishing in Current Biology on September 18 reveals by the Department of Ehtology at Eötvös Loránd University that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels to entirely new objects, not because the objects look similar, but because they are used in the same way.

As infants, humans naturally learn new words and their associations—like the fact that forks are related to bowls because both are used to consume food. In a study publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 18, a team of animal behavior experts demonstrate that dogs can categorize objects by function, too. In a series of playful interactions with their owners, a group of Gifted Word Learner (GWL) dogs were able to distinguish between toys used for tugging versus fetching, even when the toys in question didn’t share any obvious physical similarities—and then could remember those categorizations for long periods of time, all with no prior training.