Biology

Tsukuba, Japan—Meteora sporadica is a small, unicellular eukaryote (protist) that was discovered in deep Mediterranean sea sediments in 2002. It differs...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The bacteria and microorganisms that live within the human body — the microbiota — can impact...

Kaspar Valgepea, Associate Professor of Gas Fermentation Technologies at the University of Tartu, will advance understanding of gas-consuming bacteria, supported...

A new study in Nature Communications unveils the hidden world of sensory evolution in fruit flies. By delving into the...

A gelatinous animal with a diameter of about 10 cm and a red stomach resembling the Cross of St George...

This work was adapted from articles by Elizabeth Boatman and Emily C. Dooley. Credit: Hoi-Ying Holman/Berkeley Lab This work was adapted from...

There was an increase in the number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide and an uptick in fatalities in 2023 compared...

FINDINGS Scientists at City of Hope®, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, have...

DURHAM, N.C. – As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly...

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don’t usually include any leaves to show...

In a study published today in Marine Policy, researchers have unveiled striking evidence that fisheries management decisions such as spatial...

University of Sydney researchers have shown it is possible to shield plants from the hungry maws of herbivorous mammals by...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid...

A research team based at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid and Aarhus University in Denmark has...