Biology News

An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect. The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...

A crew of marine biologists from Scotland and New Zealand, who just returned from a deep-ocean expedition to one of the deepest places on Earth –...

A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...

An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...

A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...

A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...

Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...

Neurobiologists from the United States and Japan have identified the location and genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue. An image showing...

According to a research published in the journal Nature Communications, the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus) relies on stereo sniffing to locate its prey. The...

Humans alone were responsible for the demise of the thylacine, an extinct predator also known as the Tasmanian tiger, according to a new study led by University...

A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells. In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...

A team of biologists at University of Alberta, Canada, has discovered that zebrafish’s stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor...

According to a new study conducted by ichthyologists Dr Ralf Britz of the Natural History Museum and Dr David Johnson of the Smithsonian National Museum...

It has not been clear how salt halts the growth of the plant-root system, until now. According to an international study published in the journal Plant...

A new study in owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) reveals that, when an owl monkey pair is severed by an intruding individual, the mate who takes up with a new...

Dr Tina Šantl Temkiv and colleagues from Aarhus University, Denmark, have completed the first ever inventory of microbes and soil chemicals in a storm...

An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...

A team of British researchers has discovered that some bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann...

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...