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 ...

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 ...

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.

The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an ...

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

Just as humans exhibit right- or left-handedness, moths also have a preferred side on which they place their proboscis when inspecting a flower for nectar. This observation was made by Konstanz-based ...

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

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 ...

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

The list of candidates for mystery leaf- or petal-chewers is pretty long in midsummer, and can include an array of ...