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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- How did a single species of rodent invade South America and then quickly branch off into 350 new species? The answer is...

Credit: Melanie Laverdiere/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 3, 2018--As hurricanes barrel toward the coastlines and wildfires rage in...

Credit: Nuno Agostinho, iMM. A new computational approach that allows the identification of molecular alterations associated with prognosis and resistance to therapy of different types...

Credit: Graziella DiRenzo Amphibian biologists from around the world watched in horror in 2004, as the frogs of El Copé, Panama, began dying by the...

After suffering mass mortality for years due to infection with the deadly Batrachochytrium dendrobatridis fungus, or chytrid, some frog populations in El Copé, Panama, now...

Credit: Myall Tarran Leaf fossils discovered high in Australia's Snowy Mountains have revealed a past history of warmer rainforest vegetation and a lack of snow,...

For the first time, locations on the human genome have been identified that can explain differences in meaning in life between individuals. This is the...

Credit: NC State University For many of us, bumper crops of zucchinis and cucumbers conjure up the sweltering days of summer, while pumpkins and gourds...

Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are one of the most numerous animal species on earth. As simple as they seem, many of them live as...

Credit: American Chemical Society The display screens of modern televisions, cell phones and computer monitors rely on liquid crystals - materials that flow like liquids...

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Knowledge of the diet of people living in the prehistoric settlement of Çatalhöyük almost 8000 years...

The human arm can perform a wide range of extremely delicate and coordinated movements, from turning a key in a lock to gently stroking a...

Credit: Courtesy of Olivier De Clerck Sea lettuce, a fast-growing seaweed that spawns massive "green tides," is a prolific thief, according to research that for...

Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great, rapid strides towards the development of a...

CLEVELAND - (October 3, 2018) - Advances are regularly being made in cancer genetics. But, if patients aren't screened and diagnosed early enough, the advances...