International Ukraine Genetic Diversity Project finds a quarter of the genetic variation in Europe, dramatically increasing information on population diversity and medical genetic variation. Today,…
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Mollusks of a sample from Southern Israel: in red, those belonging to species of Red Sea origin, in blue, those of Mediterranean origin. Native species…
A seven month old 3D ‘mini-brain’ imaged with a confocal microscope to reveal the structure of individual neurons throughout. Credit: HEPIA Revealing details of the…
Researchers found that temperature and precipitation patterns are very important drivers of wild bee communities in our study, more important than the amount of suitable…
Severe cases of COVID-19 often include GI symptoms Chronic diseases associated with severe COVID-19 are also associated with altered gut microbiota A growing body of…
In warmer waters, shark embryos grew faster and used their yolk sac quicker, which is their only source of food as they develop in the…
The brown tree snake, which is nocturnal, was accidentally introduced to Guam in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological…
Saber-toothed cubs playing. Credit: Illustration by Danielle Dufault © Royal Ontario Museum Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than…
Dr. Owen Gilbert, researcher at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and author of the recent paper suggesting…
Shining a light on internal clocks – the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Credit: Professor Ákos Kovács, Technical University of Denmark Humans have them, so do other…
Coral reefs, such as Los Jardines de la Reina, pictured, have microbes that may help protect the coral against certain nutrient imbalances. Credit: Robert Walker…
Montana State University graduate student Eric Dunham. Credit: MSU Using years’ worth of data collected from ice-covered habitats all over the world, a Montana State…
Researchers warn that if we don’t act quickly, many species, including species of salmon and southern resident killer whales, are likely to be functionally extinct…
Platypus young in Victoria, Australia. Often considered the world’s oddest mammal, Australia’s beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead…
A male jaguar carries off an ocelot at a watering hole in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. Credit: Washington State University In what may…
Like any other plant, Arabidopsis thaliana or mouse-ear cress, needs nitrogen to survive and thrive. But, like maize, beans and sugar beet, it prefers nitrogen…
Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by…
Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report in the Biophysical Journal. This microswimming mechanism…
The newly described python species Messelopython freyi is the world’s oldest known fossil record of a python. Credit: Senckenberg Fossils suggest that the constrictors’ origin…
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered how mosses became one of our planet’s most widely distributed plants — global wind systems transport them along Earth’s…