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Credit: IOZ Recently, researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered how a severe rice virus reproduces inside the...

Chimpanzees of all ages and all sexes can learn the simple circular relationship between the three different hand signals used in the well-known game rock-paper-scissors....

Credit: MIPT's Press Office An international research team including Vasiliy Ramensky, a member of the MIPT Life Sciences Center, has unraveled genetic characteristics that increase...

In contrast to what has been previously believed, development of blood stem cells to mast cells, a type of specialised immune cell, does not depend...

Credit: Erika Isono, University of Konstanz Unlike many other organisms, plants can't simply run away from environmental conditions that change for the worse. Nonetheless, plants...

Credit: Wolf B. Frommer What is known as "rice blight" is a dreaded plant disease that endan-gers rice harvests throughout the whole of South-East Asia,...

An unusual breed of fruit bat -- previously nicknamed 'Yoda' due to its resemblance to the Star Wars Jedi Master -- has now officially been...

Researchers from the HSE Laboratory of Space Research, Technologies, Systems and Processes have applied fast-learning artificial intelligence to odour recognition and patented a handy electronic-nose...

Credit: SBP Orlando, FL, Aug. 10, 2017 ­- A team of researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) at Lake Nona, Fla. and...

Researchers at Newcastle University (UK) found that European sea bass experienced higher stress levels when exposed to the types of piling and drilling sounds made...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - If you've got plenty of burgers and beers on hand and your own stomach is full, an uninvited guest at your neighborhood...

Golfers wanting to shoot below par or tennis players looking to smash their way past opponents should focus on their backswing in order to perfect...

Following the introduction of routine childhood vaccination against rotavirus, a common cause of diarrheal illness, more than 380,000 children avoided hospitalization for diarrhea from 2008...

Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Rapid improvement in DNA sequencing has sparked a proliferation of medical and genetic tests that promise to reveal everything from...

Efforts by farmers to reduce the amount of fertilizer that reaches drinking water sources can take years to have a positive impact, according to a...