Fully implantable, wireless device enables ontogenetic research in untethered animals with dynamically programmable operation. Credit: Northwestern University First optogenetics-based study of unrestricted social interactions within…
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The caecilians found on the southern part of the island are typically yellow with brown splotches. Credit: © Andrew Stanbridge Research adds evidence to century-long…
The aquarium system in which scientists submitted Northern red sea corals to various temperatures. Credit: Maoz Fine EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals…
The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it…
A C. elegans embryo (green) extrudes a cell (magenta cell at center of image) during embryonic development. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers Study suggests…
A new Tel Aviv University study has revealed, for the first time, that bats know the speed of sound from birth. In order to prove…
A representation of a neural network provides a backdrop to a fish larva’s beating heart. Credit: Tobias Wuestefeld Machine learning helps some of the best…
Left is stem cell embryo model; right is nature human embryo. Credit: University of Exeter Exeter scientists have discovered a simple, efficient way to recreate…
A view of the head of Strumigenys ayersthey. A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests of Ecuador bears the curious…
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi extend long filament-like structures called hyphae far out into the soil. The hyphae, which are smaller than a human hair, can be…
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of…
Understanding the complex network of genes controlling sleep cycles in people, animals, plants can lead to advances in human health, crop production. How body clocks…
Fragment of the anterior end of an individual living worm (Ramisyllis multicaudata) dissected out of its host sponge. Bifurcation of the gut can be seen…
This study marks the first time researchers have sequenced the genomes of plants from ancient germinated seeds. Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Center for Genomics…
A root hair (blue) grows around the symbiotic bacteria (red). Credit: Pengbo Liang/University of Freiburg Freiburg researchers explain an evolutionary step in the symbiosis between…
Xenobots exhibit cooperative swarm activity, in this case working together to gather piles of tiny particles. Credit: Doug Blackiston, Tufts University Artificial living organisms can…
Representative images of vascular endothelial control cells (left) and cells treated with the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (right) show that the spike protein causes increased mitochondrial…
This picture shows the wing imaginal disc of fruit fly. Green cells are live and proliferating cells that express an oncogene Src. Magenta cells are…
Loch Torridon A billion year old fossil, which provides a new link in the evolution of animals, has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists…
Indian meal moth caterpillars. Credit: M. Boots/UC Berkeley Study confirms evolutionary link between social structure and selfishness. One of nature’s most prolific cannibals could be…