Biology

Credit: Amanda Powers/UC Imagine living in perpetual darkness in an alien world where you have to find food quickly by...

Credit: Joyce Gross Research based on more than 180 fossil insects preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits of Los...

Credit: (c)P.Elkan/WCS JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, May 24, 2017 -- The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current...

Loading video... Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 24, 2017 -- A research team from the Department...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (May 24, 2017) Just like people, plants need iron to grow and stay healthy....

Credit: Stelzer Research Group, Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. Is it possible to watch at the level of single cells how...

Credit: Julie Steinberg/ University of Delaware Microplastics -- small pieces of plastic less than five millimeters long -- are an...

New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated...

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been...

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability...

Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light. Human taste receptors are specialized to distinguish...

A group of researchers of the University of Barcelona (UB) have described a key interaction to understanding growth control in...

When plants come under attack internal alarm bells ring and their defence mechanisms swing into action – and it happens...

Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. The fertilized mammalian egg releases from its surface...