Conservationists work to save the planet, and few are as knowledgeable when it comes to the environmental pressures of the Anthropocene. However, the first wide-ranging...
At its autumn session, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the establishment of two new Senate Commissions. The Permanent Senate...
Male black-finned goodeid or mexcalpique fish know what they want when they pick a female to mate with; they prefer them big-bellied and as orange...
New research from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, to be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on Oct. 13, has found that...
Credit: Karen Kloth Researchers at Umeå University and Wageningen University have discovered how plants can defend themselves against aphids. They recorded aphid behavior on video,...
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience The brain is composed of distinct regions that differ in their functional roles and cellular architecture. For example,...
Humans are considered to be very prosocial in comparison to other animals, and many experiments have confirmed this idea. However, most of these experiments have...
Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - When it comes to birth control, many males turn to two options: condoms or vasectomies. While...
The great ocean currents with their immense energy transport have a decisive influence on the atmosphere and thus the climate. But besides this well-known fact...
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready? Ripening in the avocado is...
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons break and remake chemical bonds...
Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically modified corn, cotton and soybeans...
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sharks come in all shapes and sizes and perhaps the most unusual is the hammerhead shark, easily recognized by its oddly...
Credit: (c) National Museum of Wales - Dean R. Lomax.jpg An ichthyosaur first discovered in the 1970s but then dismissed and consigned to museum storerooms...
Credit: Dr Matthew Campbell, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have discovered that abnormalities...
