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A new study finds that natural selection selected for flexibility in one bacteria species.
A new study finds that natural selection selected for flexibility in one bacteria species.
It’s hard to think of a critter that inspires as much hyperbolic hysteria as the brown recluse spider.
Millions, if not billions of dollars have been spent on creating pest-resistant plants, and RoundUp chemicals have been spread over our country faster than a California wildfire.
In 2006, climate change experts from Bangor University in north Wales found a very special clam while dredging the seabeds of Iceland.
Bees are dying in droves. Maybe automated manufacturing could give them some help.
Whither the 14-year-old soprano boy?
The oldest big cat fossils ever found - from a previously unknown species "similar to a snow leopard" - have been unearthed in the Himalayas.
For decades, researchers have been finding DNA and its sister, RNA, circulating in the body, outside the safe interior of cells where these molecules do their essential work of storing and translating the code of life.
What do you think of the finding?
When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization.
We're thinking of our visit to this year's International Genetically Engineered Machines competition as our gold ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. You know, "Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination." Or something.
So. Many. Bacteria.
Though it might not seem like it to humans, dogs communicate different messages to their fellow canines when they wag their tails, according to new research appearing in Thursday’s edition of the journal Current Biology.
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus, an essential element that's a key component of DNA and the basis of cellular communication. All roads of this crisis lead back to how
Scientists from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have discovered that eucalyptus trees in the Australian outback are drawing up gold particles......
Among the mechanical components not found in nature is the spur gear. That is, until now. Zoologists of the University of Cambridge have discovered that the juvenile form of the leaf-hopper Issus coleoptratus has a set of gear-like linkages between t
Parents beware: You're about to have one less idiom in your repertoire. Scientists in Australia have discovered gold deposits on eucalyptus trees in the Outback.
Olympians are used to overcoming obstacles in their quest for the gold medal, but golfers hoping to take to the links at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games could have more than water hazards and sand traps to deal with.
In the movie Labyrinth, David Bowie stars as Jareth the Goblin King, stealing babies and casually punting his subjects during musical numbers.
This barricade was sitting on a turn out next to the Gros Ventre road about a mile north of Kelly Wyoming. Guess the bison don't like the government shutdown either. Somehow I feel humans will be blamed for this vandalism, so I'm sending a link to th
The most recent sighting occurred after a three-year-long hunt for the lizard.
Russian writer Anton Chekhov insisted that everything irrelevant to a work of fiction be removed — if you describe a rifle mounted on the wall, someone had better fire it off at some point. This dramatic principle is called Chekhov’s gun, and it actu
A Dutch colony until the 1970s, Suriname created the Central Suriname Nature Reserve in 1998 that protected four million acres of land.
The creature is reportedly of the species “Architeuthis dux.”
Today in plant news: you say, "tomato!" I say, "potato!" Oh wait, that’s not how the song goes? Well, someone should have informed England, because someone over there just grafted together a tomato plant and a potato plant to create a tomato-potato p
A newly approved procedure lets scientists gather DNA from three people, then use it for in vitro fertilization.
Designs that borrow from biology are making robots flexible, and aiding research into machine intelligence.
Get out of my coolant intake pipes!!! *shakes fist at jellyfish*