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Credit: IST Austria/Ivan Kulik As the plant root grows, a root cap protects its fragile tip. Every few hours, the old cap is lost and...

Credit: Stilianos Louca, University of British Columbia. Bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions that have hit larger forms...

Credit: Anja Studer; Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Human populations and civilization expanded rapidly over the last 10 000 years, known as the Holocene epoch....

Credit: Anja Studer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades...

Credit: @SamaraPolytech The founder of the legendary Spanish winery, senor Torres, taught his children: "The best wine is made at home." If scientists get down...

Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for...

Credit: © Henry Weimerskirch Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in the southern Indian Ocean, had...

New IIASA-led research has found that a single climate mitigation scheme applied to all sectors, such as a global carbon tax, could have a serious...

Credit: Marshall University The Marshall University School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Genomics Core, recently released...

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA -- A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to creating...

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga CHAPEL HILL, NC - All living things use the genetic code to "translate" DNA-based genetic information into proteins, which are the main...

Band pairs in shark vertebrae have been used for decades to estimate shark age, of practical use in conserving overfished sharks and managing the remaining...

Changes in climate, such as rain and drought, can affect the risk of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. An international team comprising...

Credit: CEPAP-UAB A study conducted by the UAB and the IPHES confirms a continuous presence of montane coniferous forests from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean...

Credit: Louise Peckre Madagascar's red-fronted lemurs may have a secret weapon from nature's medicine cabinet: millipedes. This is according to a study led by Louise...