Jan 23, 2019 by News Staff

Bodypainting is widespread in African, Australian and Papua New Guinean indigenous communities. Many bodypaintings use white or bright stripes on brown...

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences debunks the widely-held conservative notion that early human herders, moving...

Apr 25, 2014 by News Staff

Genetic researchers have successfully sequenced the genome of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans), a bloodsucking insect that transmits the parasite Trypanosoma...

Apr 2, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of researchers led by Prof Tim Caro from the University of California at Davis, zebra’s stripes stave off biting flies, including...

Oct 11, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, reported in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, has shown that two bacteria – one of them genetically modified...