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...
They are large rafts that drift thousands of kilometers across the ocean surface, moving with the currents in an otherwise...
A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists...
A type of virus thought to be a “mere curiosity” is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a...
Scientists have discovered, for the first time, how root cells respond to their complex soil environment, revealing that roots actively...
A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact...