Anyone who’s tried to neatly gather a fitted sheet can tell you: folding is hard. Get it wrong with your...
Forest restoration can benefit humans, boost biodiversity and help tackle climate change simultaneously, new research suggests. Restoring forests is often...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that the fern Hymenasplenium murakami-hatanakae can become independent gametophytes, i.e., live for long...
The largest and longest-ever survey of wild koalas has confirmed a chlamydia vaccine, developed by the University of the Sunshine...
Glossy black-cockatoos are seed-eating birds that feed almost exclusively on the cones of drooping sheoak trees. However, counter-intuitively, they select...
A new artificial intelligence model developed by USC researchers and published in Nature Methods can predict how different proteins may...
How similar is kidney development in humans and in the lab mice that form the foundation of basic medical research?...
Bacterial small molecule metabolites, such as adenosine-diphosphate-d-glycero-β-d-manno-heptose (ADP-heptose) and their derivatives, act as effective innate immune agonists in mammals. ADP-heptose...
Nudibranchs are members of the phylum Mollusca, and most species have a planktonic larval stage characterized by the presence of...
When it comes to predicting the abundance of a species, body size appears to be a fundamental and repeatable predictor,...
An international team of researchers discovered that coastal urban seagrass ecosystems can significantly reduce human bacterial pathogens, including those with...
Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid—a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis...