Biology

Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric...

Credit: Penn State Joan Richtsmeier, distinguished professor of anthropology, is the recipient of the American Association of Anatomists' 2019 Henry...

A Penn study of nearly 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders in China revealed strong connections between 30 to 60...

(a) Lipoptena cervi With flattened bodies, grabbing forelegs and deciduous wings, deer keds do not look like your typical fly....

Credit: A. Vila/WCS The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used...

Whole plant and animal communities can be put at risk by different types of habitat lossCredit: Louis Haynes An international...

Credit: IRB Barcelona During the day, we experience a series of physical, mental and behavioural changes know as circadian rhythms....

Credit: Caitlin Devor, The University of Tokyo, CC-BY One researcher at the University of Tokyo is in hot pursuit of...

How the most successful winter Olympian ever used high intensity training sessions to win goldCredit: Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk/NTNU When the...

New study shows that pre-hospital treatment with epinephrine has the highest protective effect against uncontrolled allergic reactionCredit: McGill University Health...

A USC Dornsife-led study may explain how racial discrimination raises the risks of disease among African Americans A new study...

Children exposed to paternal tobacco smoking before birth are more likely to develop asthma -- and associated changes to immune...

UIC research published in Science A new report in Science provides the first evidence of a mammal -- the highveld...

A nonlethal dose of insecticide clothianidin can reduce honeybees' life span by half; once combined with the fungicide pyraclostrobin, it...

Sometimes, the best defense against hostile invaders is a good, long nap. Or at least, that strategy seems to work...

Credit: Yasuyuki Hata How did some marine fish manage to make their way from the salty sea to the newly...

Researchers show dredging caused widespread damage to Florida's coral reefsCredit: UM Rosenstiel School and Miami Waterkeeper MIAMI--A team of researchers...

Washington, DC - Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that live...

Credit: Vera Nazarenko et al. Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have joined forces with colleagues from...

$65,000 award will support research into parasite toxoplasma gondiiCredit: Peter Julian/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (5/30/2019) - Boston College biologist...