The 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant transformed the surrounding area into the most radioactive landscape on Earth....
E. coli bacteria and an electronic device might seem to have little in common, but in a recent experiment, University...
In Colorado, people flock to the Rocky Mountains when the summer heat gets unbearable. Animals seek shelter too when temperatures...
Every time a cell divides, its DNA is duplicated so that the two daughter cells have the same genetic material...
In 1859, Charles Darwin coined the term “living fossils” to describe organisms that show little species diversity or physical differences...
What’s in a name? A lot, actually. For the scientific community, names and labels help organize the world’s organisms so...
A technique originally devised to extract DNA from woolly mammoths and other ancient archaeological specimens can be used to potentially...
What is the origin of genetic diversity in plants? Can new mutations acquired during growth be passed on to seeds?...
Fonio (Digitaria exilis), a type of millet, is the oldest indigenous crop in West Africa and one of the fastest-maturing...
Put the word “evolution” into Google images and the results are largely variations on one theme: Ralph Zallinger’s illustration, March...
The vocalizations of humans, bats, whales, seals and songbirds vastly differ from each other. Humans and birds, for example, are...
Assistant Professor Takahiro Kosugi from the Institute for Molecular Science, assistant Professor Yoshiaki Kamada at the National Institute for Basic...
