Privatization of public goods can cause population decline, research shows
Scientists have given a fascinating new insight into the way microbes adopt a 'co-operative' approach to securing the nutrients they ...
Tag: Evolution
The first bioluminescent click beetle discovered in Asia represents a new subfamily
Credit: Mr Wen-Xuan Bi A remarkable bioluminescent click beetle was discovered in the subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests in southwest China. ...
ELSI scientists discover new chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular life
Chemists find simplest organic molecules can self-assemble to give cell-like structures under early Earth conditionsCredit: Nerissa Escanlar, ELSI Before life ...
Quantifying how the brain smells
Credit: Albeanu lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Scientists haven't quite decoded how animals smell, but researchers at Cold ...
What do the red ‘ornaments’ of female macaques mean?
Credit: Lucie Rigaill Many human cultures associate the colour red with sexuality and fertility. Among nonhuman primates too, red skin ...
Turkestan cockroach selling online is a companion of the common household cockroach
Credit: Domae M. et al., Neuroscience Letters, June 8, 2019 Many nocturnal animals including insects use a species-specific smell, that ...
Sperm may offer the uterus a ‘secret handshake’
Researchers discover endometrial receptor that can recognize sperm moleculeCredit: (c) American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Why does it ...
How mammals’ brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at
Salk study finds that the relationship of 'distributed circuit' components scales across speciesCredit: Salk Institute The world is filled with ...
Perot Museum of Nature and Science to debut Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind
Public to experience 'one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century' when specimens of two ancient human ...
Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba to be exhibited in Perot Museum
South Africa's greatest fossil discoveries in modern times to be showcased for the first time at the Perot Museum in ...
New species of flying squirrel from Southwest China added to the rarest and ‘most wanted’
Credit: Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Described in 1981, the genus Biswamoyopterus is regarded as the most mysterious and rarest ...
Plant viruses may be reshaping our world
Credit: Shireen Dooling The community of viruses is staggeringly vast. Occupying every conceivable biological niche, from searing undersea vents to ...
Living longer or healthier? Genetic discovery in worms suggests they can be separated
Credit: Arjumand Ghazi/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, July 17, 2019 - Aging research indicates that better healthspan--the quality of life as ...
Salt regulation among saltmarsh sparrows evolved in 4 unique ways
Study defines four of nature's solutions to the same problemCredit: L-R: Swamp Sparrow, Kelly Colgan Azar; Song Sparrow, Jennifer Taggart; ...
Timing is everything for the mutualistic relationship between ants and acacias
With a new insight into a long-described mutualistic relationship, plant biologists from the University of Pennsylvania reveal the genetic factors ...
Exploring frontiers: Predicting biology
Leveraging computation and mathematics to accelerate biological discovery Join us July 25-26, 2019, at the Allen Institute for Exploring Frontiers: ...
CNIO researchers find a method to select for mammalian cells with half the number of chromosomes
This innovative method might facilitate genetic research in complex organisms like mammals, humans included, in a fast, efficient wayCredit: CNIO ...
Sex, lies and crustaceans: New study highlights peculiar reproductive strategies of Daphnia
Credit: Shireen Dooling Flourishing in spectacular numbers in lakes and ponds around the world, tiny creatures known as Daphnia play ...
Maternal secrets of our earliest ancestors unlocked
Credit: Jose Garcia and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University. New research brings to light for the first time the evolution ...
Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot
Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as ...
