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For more than a century, a frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia carried the wrong scientific name. It was not hidden in some unexplored corner of the rainforest, either.

A data scientist's viral Reddit post alleging 14-hour workdays, project credit being taken by senior colleagues and repeated work calls during a hospital stay has sparked a wider conversation about burnout, workplace politics and toxic office culture.

For centuries, lake sturgeon have moved quietly through the rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes region, growing slowly and aging in a way that has been difficult to measure. Their lives can stretch far beyond those of most freshwater fish, but just how far has remained uncertain.

A $12 million research project at Penn State is trying to give drones a new way of making decisions, drawing inspiration from the small brains of insects and other animals. Funded by the US Army's Army Research Laboratory, the project aims to develop an onboard sensing system that can pick out useful information without sending large amounts of data to external computers.

Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture.

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the South Pole about 470 million years ago. The fossils belong to the newly described Cabrieres Biota, an Early Ordovician fossil site in the Montagne Noire that preserves both hard-bodied animals and delicate soft tissues.

Training a rhesus monkey to sit calmly in one place for a routine health check can be difficult, especially when the animal lives in a busy social group. Removing one monkey from its companions can cause stress and disrupt the group, so researchers tested whether the animals could instead be taught to walk to their own individual station and remain there voluntarily.

Scientists have taken a cue from elephants to develop a material that may hold the key to fighting extreme heat which is becoming frequent as the planet continues to warm.

A snake fossil discovery in Wyoming has given palaeontologists an unusually close look at the lives of these ancient reptiles. Four complete skeletons belonging to a newly recognised species, have helped researchers understand an early member of the 'boa family' and the history of small, burrowing snakes in North America.

In 1961, researchers at Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire harvested a final crop of barley from a four-hectare agricultural plot known as Stocking Close, ploughed the soil and walked away. They did not plant a single tree, build a fence or protect young saplings with plastic tubes.