Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that...
How does a developing plant shoot know how, where, and when to grow? Dividing cells need to pass messages from...
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme...
A team of biologists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and Western Philippines...
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity loss of birds and mammals will...
Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term “pecking order.”...
New research from LSU and the University of Florida suggests that more shark attacks occur during fuller phases of the...
Understanding how cells die is key to developing new treatments for many diseases, whether the goal is to make cancer...
Male mosquitoes beat their wings faster when swarming at sunset to better detect females and increase their chance of reproducing,...
Growing up is a complex process for multi-celled organisms—plants included. In the days or weeks it takes to go from...
The sun rises on the savannas of central Kenya. Grasses sway in the wind as hoof-steps fall on the dusty...
Apoptosis is a process that causes cell death. It can go awry in cancer cells, sustaining the disease. Scientists at...
