Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity ...

Lee University students and faculty returned from an opportunity to present at the annual Conference on Bacteriophages in ...

African umbrella acacia trees grow more during droughts, contrasting with the conservative splendid thorn acacia, a study in The Plant Journal shows.

As Halloween decorations fill neighborhoods across North America, scientists have unwrapped a real-life natural mystery: six ...

An AI tool trained on chemical signatures from corpse-eating insects may help determine time and place of death for victims of violent crimes.

Cathy Tie, who launched her first biotech in SF's IndieBio, now leads Manhattan Genomics in controversial push to edit human ...

An international research consortium co-led by scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Toronto and University of Pittsburgh has mapped the functional impact of more ...

Scientists discovered a new kind of trapdoor spider under California’s sand dunes, showing how isolation helps spiders evolve ...

Dr. Steven Henikoff, a molecular biologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, has won the prestigious Rosenstiel Award for ...

The vestibular system is responsible for the sense of balance in the inner ear. Prolonged use of toxic substances, such as ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...