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Australian scientists have confirmed the hybridisation of two of the world's major pest species, into a new and improved mega-pest....

Animals may fall into what are called evolutionary and ecological traps when they make poor decisions using seemingly reliable environmental...

Credit: Kasai S., et al., Applied Physics Express, Feb. 16, 2018. A team of Japanese researchers has discovered a new...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis - and proper treatment - of...

Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National...

'My challenge is I have no idea what sex is really like for men, especially for gay men' Parents don't...

It's important to closely monitor how climate change and our increasing use of the oceans are affecting important marine resources...

Credit: Osaka University Scientists at Osaka University developed a new drug treating skin lesions in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a...

Credit: Spencer Phillips/EMBL-EBI The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have jointly developed the first open cancer...

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the...

BETHESDA, MD - In an event this afternoon at the historic Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, two funded scientists of...

Credit: University of Sussex The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been...

Women who believe that their sex drive will change over time are better able to handle difficulties with sexual desire,...

Credit: Plugi Naturally occurring pigments in berries, also known as anthocyanins, increase the function of the sirtuin 6 enzyme in...

Credit: Andalu Vila San Juan Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria infections, which can have severe consequences on their...

Credit: John Dani, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Cell Reports PHILADELPHIA - Rats that were dosed with nicotine...

This year ten researchers - five women and five men - will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important...

CHICAGO, April 5, 2018 -- A new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals the number...

How to treat patients who have microinvasive breast cancer - tumors that are 1 mm or less in size (the...

In a review article published April 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientist Andrew Feinberg, M.D., calls for...