Green swordtail fish shaped virtual mates by making repeated choices, revealing clear male preferences and more varied female ...

When humans leave Earth, even something as basic as knowing which way is up can become confusing. That made fish surprisingly useful subjects for space research. In 1973, Nasa sent two mummichogs and ...

Fish have "designed" their perfect partners in a new experiment—revealing simple male preferences and more complex female ...

University of Exeter scientists used genetic algorithms and virtual fish to let green swordtails design their ideal mates over nine generations, revealing simple male preferences and complex, ...

Robot fish have come a long way from the novelty Big Mouth Billy Bass of the late 90s. Today, marine life researchers ...

For this episode of “For Science!” we explore the concepts of solubility and density using the “floating fish” experiment. Because dry erase markers are created to not stick to surfaces, it is made ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental ...