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Credit: Martha Nelson-Flower An African desert-dwelling male bird favours his biological sons and alienates his stepsons, suggests research published today...

Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory PULLMAN, Wash.–Jean-Sabin McEwen knocks out a web search for "North Dakota," "night sky" and "flaring," and...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University What could cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria possibly have in common with Stone Age settlers of...

New research indicates that fish may adapt their behaviour to defend against parasite infection. The findings are published in the...

A gene called Prkci can point cells in the right direction, according to a new study in Developmental Biology. In...

Credit: University of Utah Health Inherited genetic mutations can rob up to 7 percent of the population of their smile....

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE — A team of investigators from the University of Kansas currently is stationed at Antarctica's...

The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of twenty years. The reason may be...

Credit: OIST When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body. The...

Credit: Faruck Morcos/University of Texas at Dallas Protein pairs that control stimulus response in bacteria maintain a sensitive balance between...

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In medical diagnostics, the importance of genetic code assays is growing day by day and...

Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...

Plant species that have evolved to withstand elevated levels of carbon dioxide grow poorly when moved to a plant community...

Credit: Dr Steeve Comeau Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies,...