Biology

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A container ship leaves a trail of white clouds in its wake that can linger in...

Credit: Image courtesy of Esteban Gabazza/Nature Communications CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A bacterial protein fragment instigates lung tissue death in pulmonary...

Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae...

Researchers open a window onto ancient mammal evolution using fossils from GermanyCredit: Oliver Wings/MLU The former coalfield of Geiseltal in...

Credit: © 2010 MBARI In the frigid waters 1,500 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of human-sized...

The cytoskeleton from a bird's eye perspectiveCredit: Markus Müller, Rocks Lab, MDC The cytoskeleton is a permanent construction site: it...

Credit: © Silva et al. / PNAS As average temperatures rise every year, it is no longer rare to see...

Penn researchers publish proof-of-concept to use alternative immune cells to target cancerCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)...

Fish behavior and stock assessments may be influenced by this sensitivity to light all over the worldCredit: Photo: Geir Johnsen,...

Credit: The University of Queensland The world's animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba identify two novel dinoflagellates containing relic nuclei from endosymbiont algae, making them perfect...

Fatty acid-binding protein 4 downregulation drives calcification in the development of kidney stone diseaseCredit: © Kazumi Taguchi Kidney stone disease...

Credit: © 2020 Tane Sinclair Taylor A range of information is collated through a simple framework that will help marine...

Marine biodegradable plastics with high strength and water resistance developed from starch and celluloseCredit: Osaka University The main cause of...

Tiny device could help professionals diagnose and fight deadly infectionsCredit: Wenrong He/Rochester Institute of Technology. Engineers have created a tiny...

Credit: Mr. Clodoaldo Lopes de Assis In a recent paper in the open-access journal Neotropical Biology and Conservation, a group...

Credit: Nagahiro Saito Nagoya University scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove...

Spurred by need and urgency, unprecedented collaboration will increase testing capacity to 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within 2...

Researchers from QMUL and GEOMAR are studying the adaptive potential of fishCredit: M. Heckwolf, GEOMAR The current pace of climate...

At the Berlin X-ray source BESSY II, researchers have decoded the protein responsible for the replication of the corona virus....