Biology

Life cycle diagrams are ubiquitous in science textbooks, and they may be due for some updates. A new study finds...

Egg cells are the largest single cells on the planet. Their size — often several to hundreds of times the...

If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different species branching off as new blooms, then new research shows...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary...

A massive new analysis of high seas salmon surveys is enhancing the understanding of salmon ecology, adding details about where...

From microbes in the human gut to symbiotic algae in coral reefs, research in recent decades has increasingly revealed the...

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.Credit: Dr...

Young male blue tits are less successful in fathering offspring outside their breeding pair, not because of a lack of...

“Our results indicate that IgM-dependent bispecific antibodies are potent therapeutic agents for B-cell malignancies.”Credit: 2024 Ohashi et al. “Our results...

From rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns to intense weather events such as hurricanes, Florida is experiencing significant climate-related challenges...

HONG KONG (16 April 2024)—A groundbreaking discovery that appears to confirm the existence of discrete number sense in rats has...

Professor Yunje Cho’s research team from the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, Republic...

FRANKFURT. The cell’s outer shell determines whether the human adaptive immune system identifies pathogens or not. Figuratively speaking, the cell...

Over the last few years, professor Halil Ibrahimi from Kosovo and his team have described several new species of aquatic...