Biology

ITHACA, N.Y. - Humans aren't the only actors on the planet. To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to...

San Francisco, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), http://www.afar.org, the world-renowned non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and...

Credit: University of Houston An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more...

Credit: Rob Margetta The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has more than doubled the sample...

Credit: courtesy Broad Institute BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Daniel MacArthur, PhD, Assistant...

Credit: Jacob Miller The last month was recorded as the warmest June ever in many parts of the world. Last...

Credit: Diamond Light Source Scientists from UCL have used the UK's synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to document for the...

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the...

Credit: Florida State University TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scientists have long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific...

Credit: Check List and Pensoft The well-reputed and established journal Check List is the latest biodiversity-themed title to join scholarly...

Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart,...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Glutathione is the most abundant natural antioxidant in cells. It protects them from damage and...

Scientists report for the first time the ability to both deep freeze and reanimate zebrafish embryos. The method, appearing in...

Credit: by Dorothy Oehler on a sample provided by Maud Walsh (Louisiana State University Large, robust, lens-shaped microfossils from the...

Credit: UNSW The prestigious Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for 2017 has been awarded to (University of...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 -- Omics technologies such as proteomics have far-reaching...

Squirrels can remember problem-solving techniques for long periods and can apply them to new situations, researchers have discovered. University of...

Huntington's disease is an hereditary disorder of the nervous system caused by a faulty gene on chromosome four. The faulty...

Credit: Daniel Kopinke Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for...

Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to positively influence the immune response in severe viral and bacterial co-infection....