A newly-discovered gene in the malaria parasite could be a good target for future drugs aimed at preventing disease transmission....
Ask a biologist why predators don’t exterminate all their prey, and part of the answer is often that there is...
Biological sex can be an important factor in predicting how animal and plant populations respond to temperature changes, from sea...
Researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) have uncovered that proteins use a common chemical label as a shield to...
Cyanobacteria are a key species in Earth’s history, as they introduced atmospheric oxygen for the first time. The analysis of...
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a web application to help farmers and industry workers use drones...
Imperial researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel touch. The findings have been...
Like humans, baboons are able to cooperate with another of their kind for the common good—or punish them if they...
Global trade, tourism and other forms of human movement are accelerating the spread of tree and plant pathogens between continents....
Bacteriophages, also called phages, are viruses that infect and kill bacteria, their natural hosts. But from a macromolecular viewpoint, phages...
They don’t know it, but Darwin’s finches changed the world. These closely related species—native to the Galapagos Islands—each sport a...
A team of researchers studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in western Uganda’s Kibale National Park for two decades...
