An international research team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the ...

While many of the mysteries of life remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living ...

The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in ...

Discover why trees can live for hundreds or even thousands of years. Learn how continuous growth, natural defense mechanisms, ...

Earwigs are seemingly everywhere in the Gem State during the summer. Despite their name and long pincers, they’re not scary — just strange.

It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how three settlements faced three distinct fates, reshaping our ...

Summary: Using high-speed videography and automated computer-vision pose estimation, the research team discovered that ...

Why do cancers develop differently in different people-even when they are exposed to the same risk factors? An international research group, including the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), has now ...

For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It ...

A new species of translucent blind fish, dubbed the demonic cave fish (Demogorgonichthys arcanus), has been discovered in the ...

Two research teams led by UC Santa Barbara faculty have been selected for Phase I support through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, a ...

Just as humans exhibit right- or left-handedness, moths also have a preferred side on which they place their proboscis when ...