Biology

Genuinely 'deforestation-free' palm oil products are problematic to guarantee, according to a new study. Palm oil is a vegetable oil...

When the American comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnut, conquered the Black Sea as a new habitat...

Credit: Maria Valieva Today, scientists extensively study FACT - a protein complex that plays a role in DNA packing within...

Credit: Moscow University Herbarium A senior researcher of the Moscow University Herbarium published in Taxon journal the results of his...

Credit: Christina McCluskey/Colorado St. Univ. Certain types of bacteria and viruses are readily ejected into the atmosphere when waves break...

Credit: DANIEL VILLAFRUELA (CC BY 4.0) RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- There's a reason parents tell their kids to lay off the...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a low-cost membrane that effectively separates oil and water on demand...

Credit: Northwestern University The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to...

Credit: Steve Morton Every cell in our bodies is shaped by its outer coating, or biomembrane. This incredible, naturally created...

Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered why bioelectrodes containing the photosynthesis protein complex photosystem I are...

Credit: DAI Junbiao Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae,...

Credit: Karin Kjernsmo Iridescence is a form of structural colour which uses regular repeating nanostructures to reflect light at slightly...

Indigenous communities are rejecting non-indigenous energy projects in favour of community-led sustainable energy infrastructure. The switch has led to some...

Credit: Buchberger team Toxic substances, nutrient shortage, viral infection, heat and many other events trigger stress responses in cells. In...

Credit: Adam Levine Data from the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak at two Sierra Leone facilities reveal daily usage rates for...

All plants require an adequate supply of inorganic nutrients, such as fixed nitrogen (usually in the form of ammonia or...

Credit: Georgia Ward-Fear Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming...

Understanding the evolution of a 400 million-year-old anti-viral protein that first emerged in marine life, is helping researchers get the...

Credit: Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, UFZ The world of reptiles may well include creatures that are more spectacular than the Gehyra variegata,...

Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In Africa as well as across other continents, several indigenous crop species have...