Biology

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 5, 2017--A comprehensive look at the under-recognized problem of environmental...

The evolution of plants has been punctuated by major innovations, none more striking among living plants than the flower. Flowering...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 5, 2017--The National Institutes of Health (NIH) instituted a policy...

La Jolla, Calif., July 5, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have undertaken the first...

Credit: UBC Okanagan As Canada's vast boreal and tundra ecosystems experience dramatic warming due to climate change, trees are rapidly...

This year's Arnold Berliner Award goes to Deni Purwandana of the Komodo Survival Program in Bali, Indonesia. He receives the...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Green infrastructure is an attractive concept, but there is concern surrounding its effectiveness. Researchers...

Listening to something while looking in a different direction can slow down reaction times while the brain works harder to...

Credit: McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Montreal, July 5, 2017 - Scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University...

Credit: Duke University BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Nicholas Katsanis, PhD, Director of...

Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered that the transcriptional regulator CTCF...

Credit: Céline Riera & Andrew Dillin, UC Berkeley Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so...

Credit: C. Nagler, LMU Munich The bigger the host, the better for its guests. That certainly holds for parasitic barnacles....

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A novel method to improve the high-yield, high-purity, high-activity purification of complex proteins by 10-...

Soil is our most important source of food. And yet, much of the world's soils are being eroded faster than...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - There are so many Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean that the combined mass of these tiny...

WASHINGTON, DC - July 5, 2017 - Pregnant women with a previous history of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)...

Credit: Stefan Els A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in...

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Last year, a team of forensic dentists got authorization to perform a 3-D scan of...

Annapolis, MD; July 5, 2017--A new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease needs the same amount of time for...