Biology

More than 100 shallow lakes extending across roughly 1,000 kilometers of coastline in southern Brazil and Uruguay could become one...

A small study of orphaned grizzly bears released into the wild has raised troubling questions about whether conventional rehabilitation methods...

A new mathematical study of competing populations suggests that winning the evolutionary race is not determined by reproductive fitness alone....

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an umbrella term for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is becoming an increasingly significant public-health challenge...

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...