Biology

The brain is increasingly being understood not as an isolated command center, but as part of a continuously communicating biological...

The blood vessels running through muscle and bone may be more than passive delivery routes. They could be the central...

For more than a century, the South African butterfly lilies of the genus Wachendorfia have challenged botanists with a striking...

Co-transcriptional splicing, once viewed primarily as a routine step in messenger RNA production, is emerging as a central regulator of...

Road traffic may be pushing Britain’s smallest hedgehog populations toward collapse, according to a new study showing that even one...

Fertilization is usually portrayed as a microscopic race: millions of sperm cells competing to reach a single egg, with only...

Biodiversity data are accumulating at an extraordinary rate, yet the information needed to understand ecological change often remains fragmented, inconsistent,...

Fluoride is usually discussed in the context of toothpaste, drinking water, or industrial pollution. At the cellular level, however, it...

The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes, yet most cells use only a fraction of them at any given...

A protein famous for safeguarding the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes has been found to play a far...