Biology

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (July 6, 2017) Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk...

Every year, backyard songbirds across the United States make an arduous journey to warmer winter climes. They migrate hundreds of...

Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more...

Credit: Jay Leek, UC Davis Research on depression in adolescents in recent years has focused on how the physical brain...

Credit: Dr. Peter K. L. Ng A new species of terrestrial crab has been found to climb trees on the...

Credit: Land of the Leopard National Park VLADIVOSTOK, Russian Federation (Jan. 17, 2018) – The Far Eastern or Amur leopard...

Credit: Sachs lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and Oregon State University have...

Credit: Photos courtesy of Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs PRINCETON, N.J.–In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange...

TORONTO, CANADA – September 13, 2016: Toronto will be represented in the Climate-KIC Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change challenge...

Credit: Photo provided by the National Institute of Polar Research A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species...

Credit: Franck Prugnolle Blood-sucking flies can act as 'flying syringes' to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons...

Credit: David Slipher, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Tom Lehrer sang about poisoning them, but those pigeons in the...

Scientists at Rutgers and Stanford universities have created a new technology that could someday help treat Parkinson's disease and other...