Biology

KNOXVILLE--In August 2014, toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie shut down the city of Toledo, Ohio's water supply, leaving...

LSTM has launched a new Transposon Registry which will serve as a repository of information on all bacterial transposons for...

Scientists at the University of York have revealed that the 1976 drought is the worst extreme event to affect butterflies...

Credit: The University of Queensland Microorganisms play a crucial role in forming beachrock, a type of rock that forms on...

Credit: Melody Ko for Tufts University Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an afterschool program demonstrated improved attitudes...

Loading video... Credit: The Wyss Institute at Harvard University What if running the 26.2 miles of a marathon only felt...

Smart meters and time-of-use electricity pricing have only modestly reduced residential energy demand during the most expensive peak periods, a...

Credit: Craig Hill/University of Washington Puget Sound is one of the best places in the United States to capture energy...

Credit: S. Eyes Fire is a crucial part of the forest ecosystem on which threatened Spotted Owls rely, but climate...

Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- New Indiana University research shows many Americans don't know how clean water gets to...

Credit: J. Carpenter Theory says that birds should choose nest sites that minimize their risk of predation, but studies often...

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A three-year survey of the California Current System along the West Coast of...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A newly developed tissue scanner allows looking under the skin...

An international group of researchers has discovered that the most ancient dinosaurs' ancestors were quadrupedal. Andrey Sennikov, employee of the...

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The next big idea to help people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes,...

Credit: Professor David Finlay, Trinity College Dublin. Glucose - commonly referred to as a 'simple' sugar - may actually be...

The origin of animals was one of the most important events in the history of Earth. Beautifully preserved fossil embryos...

A new tool enables identification of high-end caviar from Beluga sturgeons by analyzing DNA from a single caviar, a development...

Credit: Image courtesy of Akhilesh Kumar, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center MADISON, Wisconsin -- In the average adult human, there...

Credit: Wencewicz The active component of the wonder drug penicillin and related antibiotics such as the cephalosporins is an "enchanted...