In males of many species, it pays to identify females that are nearing maturity to be the first in line...
Discovering new materials and drugs typically involves a manual, trial-and-error process that can take decades and cost millions of dollars....
Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell on Earth needs ribosomes to translate genetic information into all the proteins needed for...
Every time a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other takes off on its...
In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, researchers report they can now...
Karma Nanglu says his favorite animal is whichever one he’s working on. But his latest subject may hold first place...
Farm animals look different from their wild counterparts in many ways, and one difference is consistent: their brains are smaller...
Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Each year malaria infections result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, with...
Evolutionary biologist Jay T. Lennon’s research team has been studying a synthetically constructed minimal cell that has been stripped of...
A trail of milk disperses in the depths of the Pacific off Colombia’s coast as a whale calf breaks away...
Changes in water conditions interact to affect how Trinidadian guppies protect themselves from predators, scientists at the University of Bristol...
A cochlear signal, the exact role of which has been unclear since its discovery around 70 years ago, probably gives...
