Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

An 18-year study reveals dramatic year-to-year variations in ultraviolet radiation penetration tied to Sierra Nevada ...

Clownfish, beloved from 'Finding Nemo', are shrinking in response to warming oceans, a Newcastle University study finds.

Using gene editing in a preclinical model, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center blocked the symptoms of a rare smooth muscle disease before they developed. Their findings, published in ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they ...

"Biological stochasticity"—random events at the molecular and cellular level—might be one of the biggest, most overlooked ...

How do living things evolve? What is the myriad of processes by which generic variations in a population affect organisms' ...

Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

The extreme geographical variation in selenium concentrations in soils and food crops has resulted in signific ... This is due to the strong tendency of Se to bioaccumulate (accumulation of Se in ...

As of Autumn 2017, the update and reporting of historical adjusted precipitation trends and variations will be on temporary hiatus pending the extensive data reconciliation, and resumed thereafter.