Biology

A government-run program implements a new model for carbon credits As companies seek and are required to reduce their greenhouse...

A gene regulatory multi-tool has yet another functionCredit: Reese Laboratory, Penn State A protein complex that is involved in nearly...

Credit: Daniel Field. New research by a global team of scientists has resulted in significant strides in ornithological classification and...

Credit: Bernadette M. Mach & Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky St. Paul, MN (April, 2019)--Bees are critical members of...

Weedy rice is neither wild rice nor crop rice, but rice gone rogue that has shed some traits important to...

Credit: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1882 Dubbed the 'honeypot effect' -- a team of scientists from around Australia have shown that providing woody habitat,...

A new modelling study from the University of Oxford and collaborators has estimated how changing the reflectivity of roofs can...

Scientists at Lobachevsky University have studied the effects of ionizing radiation on macroscopic and molecular systems of plantsCredit: Lobachevsky University...

The JPIO project MiningImpact investigates deep-sea ecosystems in the central Pacific OceanCredit: Steffen Niemann The area to be investigated by...

Male chimpanzees reduce aggression when social relationships in their group are unstableCredit: © Anna Preis A high social status has...

A large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research...

Study by the University of Bonn shows how the effectiveness of the National Forest Conservation Program could be increasedCredit: ©...

Prestigious award recognizes one of the bone field's most distinguished researchers for his achievements in musculoskeletal research and policy implementation...

Credit: John Toon The falling cost of solar power has led to a boom in recent years, with more and...

Credit: University of Notre Dame Inside the body, disease and injury can leave behind quite the mess -- a scattering...

Credit: Yale University Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria "breathe" by projecting tiny...

Credit: Jijie Chai Although separated by more than one billion years of evolution, plants and animals have hit upon similar...

Study's findings challenge understandings of genes as fixed features of our biology EVANSTON, Ill. --- A new Northwestern University study...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists led by Juana Díez show that the three main stages of...

Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian...