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Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to...

Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service It's a sound that can keep even the weariest among us from falling asleep: the high-pitched whine of a mosquito....

According to a study supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation five fruit trees native to the Atlantic Rainforest have powerful anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties....

Credit: Catherine Dulac Lab Tiny microscopes mounted on mice's heads have given researchers a peek into the neural circuitry of social behavior. Instincts such as...

A new Tel Aviv University study finds that young bats adopt a specific "dialect" spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from...

Credit: Aleksander Semenov Scientists from Moscow State University have proved that lophophorates - the invertebrates with special tentacular apparatus - are relatives. Scientists have examined...

Credit: Shifra Goldenberg/Save the Elephants, Colorado State University Elephants live in a social structure with a level of complexity that rivals that of human societies....