Biology

Credit: Tom Wieboldt What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi? Neither...

The study is part of an effort to understand how changes in the genome lead to changes in phenotypes Snakes...

Linking genomics to evolution to ecology, the work takes an unusual approach to reveal broad implications of how species adapt...

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, causing carbon containing permafrost, frozen for thousands of years,...

Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) research supported by nonprofit foundationCredit: NETRF The Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF) continues its aggressive funding of...

Jefferson researchers discover potential therapy for major disease symptom PHILADELPHIA - Children with a grave skin disorder known as butterfly...

Chimpanzees learn nut-cracking technique and reach expert efficiency relatively faster than humansCredit: © Christophe Boesch Humans consider themselves as the...

Community-developed blueprint of worm metabolism holds promise for greater understanding of agingCredit: Credit: Dr. Laetitia Chauve, Babraham Institute. Key points:...

New machine learning techniques could pave the way for larger, more timely projectsCredit: ©Snapshot Serengeti For more than a decade,...

Bats tricked by the sound of rainCredit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Background noise is generally regarded as a nuisance that...

Gorillas in the heart of the forestCredit: Germán Illera A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal...

Credit: Met Office The forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to...

This adverse NSAID effect is caused by dysfunctional molecular and cellular mechanismsCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or...

Credit: Tom Marchitto Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine...

Syrian hamsters are golden-haired rodents often kept as house pets. Cold and darkness can cause the animals to hibernate for...

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by...

Findings may point to potential cure for addictionCredit: University of Houston The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the University...

Approximately 500 million years ago, the evolution of a mineralised vertebrate skeleton had a knock-on effect, causing many new species...

Credit: Ülo Väli In Estonia, the rare Black Stork are living on the northernmost edge of their distribution range. In...

Credit: The University of Queensland Corals lurking in deeper, darker waters could one day help to replenish shallow water reefs...