For the most part, the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is common and harmless, posing no threat to humans with whom they...
According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This...
Biologists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered in Hong Kong waters three new species of hard coral which...
Scientists have long puzzled over the gap in the fossil record that would explain the evolution from invertebrates to vertebrates....
The reaction of narwhals to the loud noise from seismic air guns used in oil exploration involves a disruption of...
Pathogenic bacteria are highly specialized micro-organisms that are a leading cause of human, livestock and crop disease, resulting in significant...
For the function of many biomolecules, their three-dimensional structure is crucial. Researchers are therefore not only interested in the sequence...
Researchers from the University of Turku have described seven new fern species from the rainforests of tropical America. Many of...
Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research shows. Scientists studied the behavior of...
Royal Ontario Museum revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of...
Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies. A team led by the University of...
The communities formed by human gut microbes can now be predicted more accurately with a new computer model developed in...
