Biology

The UK's world-leading robotics research will be showcased at the second UK Robotics Week, which begins on Saturday, 24 June,...

Credit: © IDM Eating behavior and the subjective feeling of hunger are regulated by a variety of hormones. Here a...

Plants adopt different strategies to survive the changing temperatures of their natural environments. This is most evident in temperate regions...

Credit: Rob McCauley Marine seismic surveys used in petroleum exploration could cause a two to three-fold increase in mortality of...

Credit: IBS One of the current challenges in biology is to understand rapidly-changing phenomena. Interestingly, only a small fraction of...

Credit: Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Aarhus University New research results from Aarhus University and New York University show how active transport...

Credit: Matthew Mann/ University of Rochester Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common...

Credit: Image credit: Kahuroa. No rights reserved. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetrosiderosAK.jpg Ancestors of the iconic New Zealand Christmas Tree, P?hutukawa, may...

Boulder, CO, USA: Registration is open for The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held 22-25...

Credit: C. Rahbek, L. A. Hansen, J. Fjeldså, One-degree resolution database of the global distribution of birds (The Natural History...

MISSOULA - The elusive American pine marten, a little-studied member of the weasel family, might be more diverse than originally...

Studies of human populations suggest that our health and longevity could be affected by the diets and experiences of our...

Credit: Todd Castoe Evolution takes eons, but it leaves marks on the genomes of organisms that can be detected with...

Credit: (Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology) The evolution of the amniotic egg -- complete with membrane and shell --...

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (June 2017)--Dr. R. James (Jim) Cook, a retired research plant pathologist, U.S....

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Meeting a young patient with Zellweger syndrome, a rare, life-threatening genetic disease, started a scientific...

Credit: Kesari Lab/Brown Universtiy PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sea sponges known as Venus' flower baskets remain fixed to the sea floor...

An international team that just conducted the largest study of Tourette Syndrome has identified genetic abnormalities that are the first...

Credit: 2017 Kazushige Touhara. A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances...

Credit: Schacher Lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (June 22, 2017) -- Different types of memories stored in the...