Biology

Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely...

Credit: Reed Scherer GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may...

Credit: Wits University The aardvark, a highlight for anyone on a game-viewing African safari, will become increasingly rare as the...

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every day, 17 million HIV-infected people around the world swallow pills that...

(Florida Institute of Technology) Disease outbreaks in corals have followed El Niño-fueled coral bleaching events in the past, leading to...

Credit: Image by AN Xinli Global emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens therapies that combat infections by bacterial pathogens. Resistance genes...

The Gulf of Mexico is a special body of water with a flora and fauna that may well be unique....

NEW YORK, NY (July 31, 2017) - A new technique developed by scientists at the New York Genome Center (NYGC)...

Credit: Brooke L. Bessesen Carrying its petite frame and all-yellow skin, the recently scrutinized sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce,...

The Asian Monsoon System is one of the Earth's largest and most energetic weather systems, and monsoon rainfall is critical...

Credit: Figure provided by lead author Tyler Pavlowich A Dartmouth study of spearfishing on a Caribbean coral reef illustrates how...

Credit: Jennifer Fitchett and Louis Scott The DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Palaeoscience funded researchers based in the School of...

The researchers, from the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, found that bone retains a "memory" of exercise's effects...

St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a prominent soilborne disease of soybean, can be devastating. Yield losses from...

Credit: Thomas Marler The living cycad species are among the world's most threatened plant groups, but are also among the...

Credit: WSU A new study by Washington State University psychology researchers reveals a dampened physiological response to stress in chronic...

Cells in the body or in cultures eventually stop replicating. This phenomenon is called "senescence" and is triggered by shortening...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 31, 2017) - Although the mechanisms by which anesthetic drugs induce the state of general anesthesia have...

The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance,...

Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which...