Biology

Credit: Florida Museum/George Burgess GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in...

A new research collaboration could significantly increase the quality and economic productivity of one of the UK's largest crop outputs,...

Credit: Boekhoven Lab / TUM Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are...

An evaluation of efforts designed to reduce how many sugary drinks we consume shows some success in changing younger people's...

When it comes to the current plans to retire U.S. power plants, Carnegie Mellon University researchers believe we are "running...

Researchers focusing on the common debilitating skin disease Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which causes deep, painful lesions and leads to a...

Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 19, 2017 -- Researchers Baohua Gu and Parans Paranthaman have been named Corporate Fellows...

A new study indicates that bone strength may be inherited and that its genetic determinants are to some extent shared...

Anadromous forage fish, which spawn in freshwater but spend much of their lives at sea, are an important food source...

An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Christopher Rudd, director of research in immunology and cell...

Credit: KAIST Breath pattern recognition is a futuristic diagnostic platform. Simple characterizing target gas concentrations of human exhaled breath will...

"We've found a hole in the nitrogen cycle pipeline. As there is nitrous oxide escaping out of the soil into...

Canada's current wetland protection efforts have overlooked how the environment naturally protects fresh-water resources from agricultural fertilizer contaminants, researchers from...

Roads can be dangerous to wildlife. Animals making the perilous journey against the traffic run the risk of meeting an...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have identified a genetic difference in domesticated dogs and wolves that could explain the canines' contrasting...

The work of zoologists worldwide is often an important asset for biodiversity protection, but a new article notes that scientists...

Hinxton, 19 July, 2017 - Genomic data from the 500,000 people participating in the UK Biobank initiative will be distributed...

Credit: Discher Lab. One reason cancer is so difficult to treat is that it avoids detection by the body. Agents...

Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black...

Credit: ESRF/P. Jayet Enzyme activity is determined by the structure of a particular region of the protein called the active...