Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michi...
A gene expression study of grapevine（葡萄树） berries grown in different Italian vineyards has highlighted genes that help buffer（缓冲） the plants against e...
Researchers from the Seoul National University found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general...
Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Sant...
By activating a brain circuit that controls compulsive behavior, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can block a compulsive behavior in mice -- a...
How do immune cells manage to sort through vast numbers of similar-looking proteins within the body to detect foreign invaders and fight infections? &...
Surprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end up in the ocean. Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter our beaches, but a...
Rutgers scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons -- destined to become limestones（石灰岩）...
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a computational model of 1,366 genes in E. coli that includes 3D protein struct...
Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring coun...