Credit: Source: Rodolfo Nogueira The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors,...
Credit: PS Rao. Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such...
A study recently published in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition has found that people who include nuts in their diet are...
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Antibodies are a powerful weapon system in defending our body against invaders such as bacteria and viruses. Each antibody consists...
Credit: NIBB One of the central questions in biology is how a cell specifies its size. Because size distribution often shows a characteristically skewed pattern...
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Scientists at ITbM, Nagoya University have synthesized a new bioactive small molecule that has the ability to increase stomata numbers on...
Credit: Kristopher Lappin Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been...
A new method that inexpensively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be used by a leading research project. The test...
Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki Biopharmaceuticals, medium- and high-molecular weight biologically active macromolecules, are not easily absorbed by the small intestine, the main organ responsible ..
Later leaf emergence, earlier leaf loss: A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows that the average vegetation periods of trees and shrubs in...
DNA in lake sediment forms a natural archive displaying when various fish species colonized lakes after the glacial period. This according to researchers at the...
Credit: Andrius Pasukonis/Eva Ringler Parental care is widespread in the animal kingdom. Poison frogs are also known to be dedicated parents. They pick up their...
As schools around the U.S. start back up, so do trips to the doctor's office. But is that raw sore throat due to bacteria, which...
Raw broccoli sprouts, a rich source of potential cancer-fighting compounds, have become a popular health food in recent years. But conventional heat treatment used to...
The drugs people inhale, inject or ingest ultimately end up in some form down the toilet. So scientists have started monitoring drug use through sewage-based...
