Most of us are aware that climate change is altering our world. But it can also make certain natural disasters,...
Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and...
The relationship between mother and child may offer clues to the mystery of why humans live longer lives than expected...
Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed software that can simulate the growth of field crops. To do this,...
Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and at...
Some species of tardigrades are highly and unusually resilient to various extreme conditions fatal to most other forms of life....
Bacteriophages, viruses that attack and destroy bacteria, are everywhere in the natural world where they play a vital role in...
Magnesium compounds are a common ingredient of many remedies designed to help people wind down and escape the stresses of...
Parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds can learn to make new sounds. No-one knew, but New Zealand’s smallest bird, the rifleman or...
Paleontologists from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the University of Edinburgh (UK), the Universidade Federal de Santa...
University of Minnesota researchers have successfully mapped the complete genome of the endangered Przewalski’s horse. Once extinct in the wild,...
An international research team from Swansea University and UBC Okanagan (UBCO) has uncovered a new insight into human evolution by...
