Sleeping alongside your dog probably doesn’t disrupt your sleep as much as you might think, according to a study published October 7, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One by Ming Fei Li of the University of Toronto, Canada, Lavania Nagendran of the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, and colleagues.

Internal documents show that the trade association for U.S. beef production knew about livestock’s outsized role in global warming by 1989 and undertook strategic communications operation to convince the public otherwise.

More than 80 years ago scientists discovered that differences in yellow pigmentation were critical to courtship success and failure for fruit flies. 

The lasting impact of historical events on New Mexico fire regimes, using sea slugs as ecological ambassadors and more from ESA’s journals.

Luis Escobar, associate professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech, has received a $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation to lead a nationwide investigation into how environmental shifts and virus evolution cause hantaviruses to leap from wildlife to humans in a process termed "spillover transmission." Escobar is also a member of the Pandemic Prediction and Prevention Destination Area that funded pilot work for this NSF project.

Coral reefs in Indonesia’s Spermonde Archipelago are under pressure from both natural and anthropogenic activities. Researchers from Hasanuddin University assessed reef conditions across three islands using underwater photography and drone surveys, while also gathering local perspectives on reef conditions and restoration. They found greater live coral cover in clearer waters but limited community readiness to participate in conservation efforts, suggesting that training and institutional support could strengthen local communities’ role in protecting these natural treasures.