Tag: Biology

Credit: Per Jensen Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could ...

Credit: Motoyuki Ashikari Scientists at Nagoya University and colleagues in Japan have identified two antagonistic genes involved in rice plant ...

Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as ...

Credit: James Burridge Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant ...

Credit: Photo by Matthew Ware / Florida State University A research team led by Florida State University found that sea ...

New call for funding, advocacy for botanical gardens to lead efforts to avert plant extinctionCredit: © The Morton Arboretum LISLE, ...

Credit: Iliana Baums, Penn State Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"--the first of ...

Credit: Cristian Bonilla Poveda URBANA, Ill. - Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with ...

Credit: Charlotte Konrad, MDC There are up to a hundred different receptors on the surface of each cell in the ...

Credit: Connor Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy. A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge ...

Credit: Padmanabha Prasanna Simha, Indian Space Research Organisation WASHINGTON, August 25, 2020 -- Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a ...

During a pandemic, the problem of aerosolized saliva droplets at a dentist's office is acute. Thanks to polymer viscoelasticity, dentists ...

Credit: Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research The six-year-long program is part of a large-scale initiative from the SSF, aligned with ...

Researchers analyze thousands of microbial genomes and discover that two abundant groups produce energy using ancient methods that may predate ...

To prevent cell death caused by DNA damage, adult brain cells in fruit flies produce extra copies of their chromosomesCredit: ...

Credit: University of Cincinnati Creative + Brand You might have heard the old proverb, "It takes a village to raise ...

Credit: Yannick Wurm & Emeline Favreau Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that harmful mutations accumulating in ...

FAU Harbor Branch study is first long-term, in-depth analysis of elasmobranch community in Southern Indian River lagoonCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Florida ...

Research results presented by paleontologists of Mainz University allow for more accurate conclusions on the nutrition and habitats of extinct ...

Future possibilities include controlling size of crop leavesCredit: Photo by Hirokazu Tsukaya, CC BY Clinging to the walls of tropical ...