Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to...
A small study suggests that when two pigs are fighting, a bystander pig can intervene to either reduce the number...
A quick survey of life on Earth will usually yield two groups: those that produce their own nutrients and those...
A team of researchers at Umeå University has discovered that an enzyme in human cells has probably evolved from an...
In recent years, scientists who study gene expression in cells have used a method that essentially pins a tail on...
One of the smallest and mightiest organisms on the planet is a plant-like bacterium known to marine biologists as Prochlorococcus....
The unreasonable use of antibiotics has pushed bacteria to develop resistance mechanisms to this type of treatment. This phenomenon, known...
Soils contain diverse communities of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses. Interactions between these tiny organisms shape the ability...
The island of Madagascar—one of the last large land masses colonized by humans—sits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the...
Sea turtles have been overharvested in the past, resulting in their endangered population status. But over the last two decades,...
In a new study, University of Maryland researchers have demystified the process by which cells receive their shape—and it all...
A team of scientists at University of Oxford have worked with multiple techniques at Diamond Light Source, to solve the...
