Ultra-Small, Parasitic Bacteria Found in Groundwater, Dogs, Cats — And You
Inside your mouth right now, there is a group of bacteria whose closest relatives can also be found in the belly of a moose, in…
Inside your mouth right now, there is a group of bacteria whose closest relatives can also be found in the belly of a moose, in…
Harvard scientists find that the same cell types that cause goosebumps are responsible for controlling hair growth. If you’ve ever wondered why we get goosebumps,…
Fish market favorites such as orange roughy, common octopus, and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the…
Scientists and historians working at McMaster University, the Mütter Museum, and the University of Sydney have pieced together the genomes of old viruses that were…
New research has revealed when it comes to flying the largest of birds rely on air currents, not flapping to move around. New research has…
Since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have marveled at sea turtles’ impressive ability to make their way — often over thousands of kilometers —…
Packed pigment granules help them blend in without blowing their cover. If there were a stagehand of the sea, wearing black to disappear into the…
The role genetics and gut bacteria play in human health has long been a fruitful source of scientific inquiry, but new research marks a significant…
A paper published July 7, 2020, in the open access journal PLOS Biology outlines a roadmap for creating, for the first time, an agreed list…
The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics research. Although the current human reference genome…
Ultra-black fish skin absorbs more than 99.5% of light in a new, extremely efficient way, a discovery that may advance high-tech optical and camouflage technology….
Finding ends a century-long search for microbes that live on manganese. Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as…
Multiple approaches used to investigate adaptive coloration of Dasymutilla gloriosa. Driving across the arid American Southwest, one views miles upon miles of scrubby creosote bushes….
Researchers Have Generated the First Complete X Chromosome Sequence Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health…
Wits researchers find that aardvarks feeding in the daytime during droughts might be starving. Aardvarks occur across most of sub-Saharan Africa, but very few people…
Over time goldenrod plants and the gall flies that feed on them have been one-upping each other in an ongoing competition for survival. Now, a…
This week, scientists of the Institute of Bee Health of the University of Bern have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Communications Biology, which…
To combat COVID-19, we need to regulate our immune systems to resemble those of bats. Bats are often considered patient zero for many deadly viruses…