Biology

All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don’t get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and...

 Credit: photo by Jan Zwilling/BioRescue   BioRescue, an international consortium of scientists and conservationists, succeeded in achieving the world’s first...

Modelling shows how microplastics may bioaccumulate in the Galápagos Islands food web, with Galápagos penguins most affected, according to a...

Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical...

A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers. But every runner is...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — In the largest study of its kind, researchers at UC Davis Health found that exposure to organophosphate...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive molecules containing oxygen. These compounds, which are normal byproducts of biological processes in...

The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside...

Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and fewer surviving juvenile Pacific cod...

In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was...

The Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences for discovering a new kind...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs), characterized by the proliferation of detrimental algae and cyanobacteria,  occur worldwide. HABs include any event causing...

Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team...

Crucial new data about the numbers of Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe living within Cameroon’s Bénoué National Park has been released,...