Biology

Credit: Jenna Luecke/Univ. of Texas at Austin About a third of the world's fish stocks are being overfished, meaning they're...

Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have...

(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University physicist has been awarded a £1.4M EPSRC Career Fellowship over five years.Dr Dmitry Zmeev is...

Credit: Geology, Victoria A. Hudspith and Claire M. Belcher Boulder, Colo., USA: One of the main types of fossil used...

Savings are also being achieved by levelling out power consumption peaks Under VTT's leadership, Finland has the world's most energy-efficient...

Credit: Photo by Ramon Leon Palmer amaranth is widely considered to be one of the most damaging and difficult to...

Credit: Stefan_Schranz/ pixabay, CC 0 FRANKFURT. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the...

In about half of all patients with rare hereditary disorders, it is still unclear what exact position of the genome...

How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to...

Credit: Courtesy of Drexel University Your brain's reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new...

Credit: (c) by Walter Kaufmann and Ryuichi Shigemoto A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science...

The plant disease fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is dreaded by fruit growers. It affects apple and...

Flexible electronic parts could significantly improve medical implants. However, electroconductive gold atoms usually hardly bind to silicones. Researchers from the...

Credit: Ace George Santiago, Cornell University By tagging a cell's proteins with fluorescent beacons, Cornell researchers have found out how...

Credit: Igone Palacios / UPV/EHU Initially, protected areas had a single, major aim which was to protect the biodiversity; today,...

Credit: NASA One of the busiest work stations on the International Space Station got a major upgrade recently, and it...

Credit: Gang Huang A long-standing mystery is that, despite the persistently increased greenhouse gases emissions throughout the twentieth and early...

Ischemia results when narrowed, hardened or blocked blood vessels starve tissue, often resulting in heart attack, stroke, gangrene and other...

Credit: Richard Young and Dr Clare Weeden. A Melbourne study is set to improve treatment options for patients with the...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have made the first direct demonstration that fecal donor...