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

Pando, a Utah aspen grove, is the world's largest living organism by weight. This clonal colony consists of genetically ...

Why do cancers develop differently in different people—even when they are exposed to the same risk factors? An international ...

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

Anyone who has boiled a pot of water understands that it takes both time and energy to raise the temperature, so it may come ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...