Biology

What does an asparagus have in common with a vanilla orchid? Not much, if you are just looking at the...

A new research study examined the results from data generated by citizen scientists using a simple web-based motor test. The big...

Life has a challenging tempo. Sometimes, it moves faster or slower than we’d like. Nevertheless, we adapt. We pick up...

Oxygen is an essential element for animal survival. Ocean warming, circadian rhythm, eutrophication, high-density aquaculture, power failures and long-distance live...

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) employed novel statistical methods to reveal the extent of biodiversity loss in...

Great whites, the largest predatory sharks in the world with the most fatal attacks on humans, are tough to imagine...

A sequence variant that increases risk of pregnancy lossScientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen and their collaborators from...

As people age or become ill, their immune systems can become exhausted and less capable of fighting off viruses such...

Cellular agriculture – the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals – is...

Where freshwater rivers meet seas and oceans lies a scientifically intriguing and ecologically important type of ecosystem. As estuarine ecosystems...

For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that...

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and head of Janelia’s 4D Cellular Physiology research area, has...

Did you know that sponges can move? While not exactly the champions of underwater acrobatics, sponges exhibit coordinated movements —...

Plant architecture is the outcome of several successive developmental processes that can be classified into two events: organogenesis and extension....