Animals of the same species don't always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed CellScope, a high-performance single-cell analysis ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The warming El Niño weather phenomenon could form later this year, potentially pushing global temperatures to record heights.

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking ...

Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...

Many biological functions are regulated by the switching on and off of mechanisms triggered by the matching of a keyhole ...

Promoting women's ownership in wineries can boost sales among the largest group of U.S. wine consumers, who happen to be ...

During hibernation, brown bears spend up to six months lying almost completely still, without eating, drinking or exercising.

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...

What do you envision when you think of meekness? You probably see a mousy doormat, someone sheepishly acquiescing to the will of the stronger. When Jesus says, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall ...

New geological data indicate that marine life is somewhat resilient to warming in the tropics. Chris Fokkema, Earth scientist at Utrecht University, discovered that tropical algae were largely ...