Biology

May 25, 2026

Impossible research produces 400-year El Niño record, revealing startling changes

Ph.D. student extracts world-first centuries long seasonal record of El Niños from coral coresCredit: Picture: Jason Turl Melbourne: Australian scientists...

Many more amphibian species at risk of extinction than previously thought

Frogs already knew it wasn't easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional...

Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution

Credit: Andrey Zhuravlev, Lomonosov Moscow State University Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in...

Hunting jeopardizes forest carbon storage, yet is overlooked in climate mitigation efforts

The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests,...

A brain region for Pokémon characters?

If your childhood involved countless hours spent capturing, training and battling Pokémon, there may be a wrinkle in your brain...

Messenger cells bring good news for bone healing, USC stem cell study finds

Credit: Stephanie T. Kuwahara and Francesca Mariani/USC Stem Cell How do bones heal, and how could they heal better? The...

Eddy currents affect flux of salt more than heat

Rice husks can remove microcystin toxins from water

UToledo research identifies another potential -- and renewable -- tool to fight harmful algal bloomsCredit: Dan Miller / The University...

The winter weather window that is costing rapeseed growers millions

Credit: Phil Robinson UK rapeseed growers are losing up to a quarter of their crop yield each year because of...

IPBES: Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’

Current global response insufficient; 'transformative changes' needed to restore and protect nature; opposition from vested interests can be overcome for...

UNH researchers discover new strain of canine distemper in wild animals in NH, VT

Virus highly contagious to domesticated dogsCredit: Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department DURHAM, N.H.--A distinct strain of canine distemper virus, which...

UV lights on power lines may help save Sandhill cranes

Credit: James Dwyer, EDM International Crane species are declining around the world, and lethal collisions with power lines are an...

Banana disease boosted by climate change

Credit: Dan Bebber Climate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows....

Cooperation among fishers can improve fish stock in coral reefs

Credit: Tim McClanahan, Wildlife Conservation Society Cooperation within a group of people is key to many successful endeavors, including scientific...

DNA test is an effective cervical cancer screening tool for women in low-income countries

Effective cervical cancer screening initiative by Dartmouth researchers in Honduras identifies different human papillomavirus types than those in the USCredit:...

Research shows cattle ranching could help conserve rare African antelope, lions

Credit: Douglas Kamaru Endangered African antelope and the lions that prey on them may benefit from certain cattle ranching practices...

What the wheat genome tells us about wars

Credit: © Nature Genetics - Pont/Duchemin/Armisen First they mapped the genome of wheat; now they have reconstructed its breeding history....

Tiny droplets open the doors to in-flight imaging of proteins

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the creation of a beam of nanodroplets capable of delivering a variety of...

RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus

Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of...

UW Oshkosh to host International Symposium on Society and Resource Management June 2-7, 2019