Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that c...
Diabetes is often the result of obesity and poor diet choices, but for some older adults the disease might simply be a consequence of aging. New resea...
Called after Tolkien's character from the "Lord of the Rings" series, a new eyeless harvestman species was found to crawl in a humid cav...
In the animal world, if several males mate with the same female, their sperm compete to fertilize her limited supply of eggs. Longer sperm often seem ...
Champion of regeneration, the freshwater polyp Hydra is capable of reforming a complete individual from any fragment of its body. It is even able to r...
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have created analog and digital electronics circuits inside living plants. The group at the Laborat...
UK researchers have unearthed ancient fossil forests, thought to be partly responsible for one of the most dramatic shifts in the Earth's climate ...
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine...
The most detailed analysis yet of the role germline mutations in genes associated with cancer predisposition play in the development of childhood canc...
Biologists at Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads and brains characteristic of another species of flatwo...