Researchers studied a unique population of gentle Africanized honey bees in Puerto Rico. Credit: Manuel A. Giannoni-Guzman Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms…
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists. Credit: UCL A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered…
Researchers “counted” Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) in Maizuru Bay, Japan, through quantitative measurements of environmental DNA concentration. Credit: Reiji Masuda, Kyoto University River water,…
Scientists have shown that a large group of viruses, including the influenza viruses and other serious pathogens, steal genetic signals from their hosts to expand…
A magnified image of the mouth of a ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus, reveals snake-like dental glands. Researchers from Brazil’s Butantan Institute and Utah State University…
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and…
This image shows a general view of the ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus. Credit: Carlos Jared Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can…
By folding DNA into a virus-like structure, MIT researchers have designed HIV-like particles that provoke a strong immune response from human immune cells grown in…
C. Jejuni cell bodies (red) and flagella (green). Credit: Eli Cohen / Imperial College London Researchers have solved the mystery of why a species of…
Plotopterids like these Copepteryx grew to enormous sizes. Credit: Mark Witton New Zealand’s monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan,…
The paradise tree snake mid-glide during the team’s motion experiments. Credit: Jake Socha Interdisciplinary team finds the motion enhances Chrysopelea paradisi’s rotational stability. The snakes…
In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases…
Fatty acid transporters (CD36; blue) in blood vessels (green), whose overlapping shown in yellow green, transverse around fat cells (red) under the skin. Credit: IBS…
New species described by University of Kansas undergraduate researcher Rachel Smith include Chasmogenus spp. A-C C. acuminatus: A) dorsal view B) lateral view C) ventral…
This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of intact rotavirus particles. Credit: CDC Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths annually in infants and children younger…
Research finds mechanism by which bacterial toxis evolve ability to cause new illnesses. The coronavirus pandemic is a daily reminder of the consequences brought by…
Adélie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and breeding success in ice-free summer. Credit: Yuuki Watanabe (National…
Movebank data worldmap. Credit: MPIAB/ MaxCine An international team of scientists is investigating how animals are responding to reduced levels of human activity during the…
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled and…
Reconstructions of adult-born neurons. Left to right: age 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, and 24 weeks. Adult-born neurons continue to undergo significant morphological modifications…