After injury, plants make a trade-off between repairing damaged tissue and ramping up their defenses, according to a new study...
A set of Triassic archosaur fossils, excavated in the 1960s in Tanzania, have been formally recognized as a distinct species,...
University of Toronto researchers have created a first-in-class functional catalog of proteins that activate gene expression, with implications for tailored...
Life has two choices: Survive or go extinct. And surviving isn’t easy. Scientists often debate why species become specialized or...
On Valentine’s Day, couples all over the world will enjoy romantic dinners to celebrate love and relationships. The association between...
A cloud-based repository that creates a digital fingerprint of engineered microorganisms has been successfully trialed. An international team led by...
In his book Wonderful Life, the late Stephen Jay Gould, former professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology...
Being stressed about doing well on a test might not be limited to humans, according to a new study led...
Cockatoos have shown an extraordinary ability to complete a task by combining simple tools, demonstrating that this cognitive ability is...
Scientists from the UK and Singapore have successfully engineered common baker’s yeast to produce a key ingredient for dementia medicines....
In a landmark study of airborne microorganisms from ground level up to 3,500 meters, scientists from the Singapore Centre for...
Predators kill prey and prey attempt to avoid being killed by predators; the former obviously reduces the number of prey...













