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Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...

Researchers have uncovered a fossil sea urchin that pushes back a fork in its family tree by 10 million years, according to a new study....

Credit: Image credit: Environmental Protection Agency The varied sex lives of a type of green algae have enabled a University of Adelaide researcher to test...

Credit: Hesed Padilla-Nash and Thomas Ried, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health New research indicates that people who had more infections as babies harbor...

Credit: CREDIT: A.H. Kopelman for CRESLI. New York (November 16, 2016) – An acoustic buoy recently deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and...

Credit: Courtesy of Tufts University (July 14, 2017)–Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have discovered important biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in...

MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction — the vital connection where nerve meets muscle. The device, about the size...

A new cellular signal discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Chicago with scientists from Tel Aviv University provides a promising new...

Credit: Ajay Narendra They are famed for their highly developed work ethic … now a study shows ants' navigational skills are more sophisticated than was...

Credit: Lynette Clennell iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the sub-tropical north-eastern corner of South Africa has become famous for its birdlife,...

JUPITER, FL – April 28, 2016 – Designing effective new drugs, especially drugs to fight cancer, demands that you know as much as you can...

Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan – A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by the replication of a single...

Credit: Cartographer: Kristina Thygesen A United Nations report just launched says mining companies can simply reduce environmental destruction and death by changing the way they...

Credit: US Geological Survey Using a network of up to 60 citizen scientists, a team of Penn State researchers will assess the levels of endocrine-disrupting...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peipei Zhang Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered the way toxic proteins linked to the...