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New UBC research suggests free-roaming cats are likely to blame in the spread of the potentially deadly Toxoplasma gondii parasite...

Bumblebees pollinate many of our favorite foods, but their own diet is being upset by climate change, according to a...

Like setting off alarms in a beehive, Asian honeybees use complex signals to alert nest mates about giant hornet attacks,...

Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University, received the 2021...

For the first time, the unique sounds honey bees (Apis cerana) use to alert members of their hive when giant...

Scientists have carefully studied the intricacies of how individual organisms live and act together in groups known as biological collectives....

Tiny particles of gold could be the new weapon in the fight against bacterial antibiotic resistance, according to research just...

Irvine, CA – November 9, 2021 – PIEZO1, an ion channel mechanosensor found within cells, has been revealed to play...

In a groundbreaking study of people living with HIV, University of Alberta researchers found that elusive white blood cells called...

Most mental health care in America doesn’t happen in psychiatrists’ offices – especially when it comes to children, teens and...

The outcome predictive models were developed in part using data from a large multi-center National Institute of Mental Health-funded study...

Ithaca, N.Y.—For the first time, researchers have shown that there is a genetic component underlying the amazing spatial memories of...

 Credit: Smart Protein A major new survey on meat consumption in Europe reports that Europeans have a growing appetite for...

The "teapot effect" has been threatening spotless white tablecloths for ages: if a liquid is poured out of a teapot...

In our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture is mentioned as a possible technology. CO2 can, for example,...

Have you ever seen someone you recognized, but couldn’t recall their name or how you knew them?Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech...

For the past five months, the European Commission-funded project ‘European Red List’ of Taxonomists has been reaching out to insect...

In a study published in Nucleic Acids Research, the team of cancer researcher Francis Rodier, an Université de Montréal professor,...

Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing...

The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and MitoPower LLC (“MitoPower”) were...