Biology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Credit: Brendan Snarr, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal, June 22 2017 - Have you ever heard...

Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown for the first time how a class of advanced prostate cancer drugs are processed...

Paracetamol is popular for relieving pain. But if you are pregnant, you should think twice before popping these pills according...

Credit: Diego Javier Jiménez Microbes are widely used to break down plant biomass into sugars, which can be used as...

Credit: Thames Water & People's Trust for Endangered Species Britain's population of hazel dormice, famed for their sleepy lifestyle, has...

In a recent Chemical Reviews article, the Biological Text Mining Unit at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) together...

Credit: Luke Eberhart-Phillips Extinction risk for some species could be drastically underestimated because most demographic models of animal populations only...

ANN ARBOR--Gelada males--a close relative to baboons--pay attention to the loud calls of a rival to gain information about his...

Credit: Thames Water A small rodent called the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is a European Protected Species and is monitored...

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts...