Biology

(Academy of Finland) The size of returning Atlantic salmon is largely dependent on the number of years that the salmon...

(University of Southern California) A fossil sea urchin found in the Smithsonian's collections is the oldest of its kind, pushing...

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) A team of researchers, including scientists from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), has reported...

(University of California - Riverside) Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found parts produced by some commercial 3-D...

(American Society of Agronomy) Manure management is serious business for a meat-hungry world. A single cow, depending on its size,...

(University of Southern Denmark) Usually the microbe S. islandicus is found in hot and acidic volcanic springs, but now the...

(University of Bonn) A team of researchers led by scientists from the University of Bonn has discovered a basis of...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Children with asthma living in low-income, urban public housing had significantly fewer visits to...

(Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Inside mammalian cells, kinesin plays the same role as do...

(University of British Columbia) UBC Faculty of Medicine scientists have created a 'Franken-platelet' -- a supercharged blood cell -- that...

(Wiley) To some, holidays such as Bastille Day, Independence Day, and New Year's Eve, as well as major sporting events,...

(Wiley) The fathead minnow has long been a premier animal model for research and regulation related to environmental toxins. Unfortunately,...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) In the three years following bariatric surgery, the majority of patients experience...

(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology makes an internationally renowned experimental physicist move to Germany: Wolfgang...

(Duke University Medical Center) Used alone, a cell phone app that tracks exercise, calories and weight loss goals is, on...

(American Chemical Society) The bottle brush, with its long stalk and dense spray of plastic bristles, is the unsung hero...

(National Science Foundation) A continuing look at a Maya village in El Salvador -- frozen in time by a blanket...

(University of Georgia) In a study comparing physical traits of female and male monarchs, University of Georgia found that although...

(Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research) BTI's Joyce Van Eck has received a new patent for methods to fortify potatoes...

(NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region) Scientists have for the first time determined the ratio of males to females in a...