In humans, virtually every cell stores fat. However, patients with a rare condition called congenital lipodystrophy, which is often diagnosed in...
New research has identified more than 1,000 edible plants that could address vitamin B deficiencies for thousands of people. In...
For the first time, new research from the University of Copenhagen proves how plants defend themselves against herbivores. Spicy flavors...
From foraging for prey to evading predators, ship strikes or other dangers, a dolphin’s survival often hinges on being able...
With some home security software and a little ingenuity, researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to...
New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst uncovers the negative link between flightworthiness and fight-worthiness in birds. Evolutionary pressure...
A supportive environment can bring out the best in an individual—even for a bird. After an E.coli outbreak in 2006...
Neurons are constantly performing complex calculations to process sensory information and infer the state of the environment. For example, to...
On one of the first mild days in February, Duke’s Emily Bernhardt and her stream ecology team donned their hip...
The fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found...
It is predicted that global average temperatures will have risen by between 0.9 and 2.0 ºC around the middle of...
Observations of abundance changes in one group of insects—for example grasshoppers—say very little about how other types of insects, such...
