A study published in Ecology Letters reveals that extreme drought conditions are altering the stability of grassland productivity by shifting...
Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of...
Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models replicated vessels...
Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major DNA repair pathway in human cells. The research, published today as...
When a major cyclone tears through an island nation, all efforts rightly focus on saving human lives and restoring livelihoods....
Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G...
In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in...
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic...
Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from microscopic algae...
When a species reproduces, typically, each parent passes on one of their two versions (alleles) of a given gene to...
The North Korean government engages in unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade, which includes species protected under its own laws and...
A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists...
