Credit: Illustration © Jorge Blanco An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that...

Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective...

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...

Credit: M. Froehlich / Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Human communication is one of the most sophisticated signalling systems, being...

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving...

While there are no cures for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, many researchers believe that one could be...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Two factors–metabolism and gut microbes – have been credited by researchers as key players in the fight...

Stem cells sustain the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cells, offering exciting promises in both basic and applied...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop...

A new study from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa is poised to completely change our understanding of...

Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Is there room for black bears in human-dominated...

Credit: Wits University Scientists from the Wits School of Public Health, the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwa-Zulu Natal...

When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A...

Credit: Centre for Molecular Biology It has been proposed that somatic gene variations (SNV) present in few brain cells could...

Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in...

Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new...

Credit: By G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – A team of Michigan State University scientists has genetically sequenced two species...

EUGENE, Ore. — May 5, 2016 — A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a...

Credit: Dr. Vladimir Yurkov A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology has identified new toxic metalloid-reducing bacteria...

SCIENTISTS have demonstrated for the first time the 'perfect storm' of conditions that cells need to start forming cancer, helping...