Biology

Prescribed burning and restoration thinning helped save red-cockaded woodpeckers in the nation's South; the same strategy could protect spotted owls...

How do the communities of microbes living in our gastrointestinal systems affect our health? Baltimore, MD--How do the communities of...

Credit: University of Notre Dame Within the next 80 years, the world's population is expected to top 11 billion, creating...

Credit: The University of Adelaide DENVER/July 2, 2019 - The last, large, isolated, healthy chlamydia-free population of koalas in Australia...

Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences The National Science Foundation has awarded a CAREER grant to...

Discovery led researchers to software fixCredit: Brent Haglund LIVERMORE, Calif. -- A weakness in one common open source software for...

Mushrooms: Darker fruiting bodies in cold climates The fly agaric with its red hat is perhaps the most evocative of...

Scientists make an inventory of microbial life in the world's most remote ocean region, the South Pacific GyreCredit: Tim Ferdelman...

Microbiologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that is responsible for toxoplasmosis, utilizes at...

The article by Dr. Tobias Eckle et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, Volume 25, 2019 Epinephrine has been...

Credit: Yusuke Fukuda East Timor's origin is shrouded in myth. The Southeast Asian island is said to have formed from...

Credit: University of Otago University of Otago scientists are part of an international research collaboration which has made an important...

Study warns of threats from future concurrent drought and heat eventsCredit: Margot Wholey / UC Merced Irvine, Calif., July 1,...

The permanent human occupation on the Tibetan Plateau was facilitated by the introduction of cold-tolerant barley around 3600 years before...

Breakthrough and unique research helps scientists reposition papaverine as a novel drug to treat inflammation that is implicated in sepsis...

The capacity of the human central nervous system to regenerate after injury or illness is limited, and the resulting functional...

A new study in marmoset monkeys suggests that individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions, providing new...

Researchers at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki found that women were more likely to volunteer for all-female paramilitary organizations...

HFSP Nakasone Award The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) has announced that its 2019 HFSP Nakasone Award will be awarded...

Credit: Robert Whyte (Jotus fortiniae sp. nov., top row) and Michael Doe (unidentified species, bottom row), CeNak. New to science...