Biology

Credit: Andrés Cortés, Santiago Madriñán and coauthors As temperatures rise around the world, many species may escape the heat by migrating to higher elevations. But what will happen to those species that are already as…

No other virus-eating organisms are knownCredit: Ramunas Stepanauskas and coauthors Viruses occur in astronomic numbers everywhere on Earth, from the atmosphere to the deepest ocean. Surprisingly, considering the abundance…

A new cross-publisher initiative calls for unrestricted availability of abstracts to boost the discovery of research.Credit: I4OA The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of…

Credit: Andrew Bladon Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady location to…

Researchers at INRS uncover a new parvovirus strategy for reaching the cell nucleusCredit: INRS Researchers at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), in collaboration with American scientists, have uncovered a new…

Credit: Andrew Read and Duke University. All research activities were carried out under NOAA/NMFS Scientific Research Permits 17086 and 20605 (Robin Baird); NOAA/NMFS permit 14809-03 (Doug Nowacek); and NOAA General Authorization... …

In mice, the maternal gut microbiata regulates which genes are activated in the growing brain, UCLA study showsCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA During pregnancy in mice, the billions of bacteria and other microbes that live in a mother's…

Scientists show how a polyphenolic compound derived from blueberry can treat inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: Tokyo University of Science Various plants and their products are known to contain "bioactive" ingredients that can…

Invaluable rainforests could become become savannaCredit: Florida Institute of Technology Amazonia is closer to a catastrophic ecological tipping point than any time in the last 100,000 years, and human activity is the cause. In a…

Neuroinformatics scientists at Osnabrück University and data specialists at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre provide daily analyses of infection ratesCredit: Copyright: Universität Osnabrück / Forschungszentrum Jülich Neuroinformatics…

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Anna Robuck) KINGSTON, R.I. - Sept.23, 2020 - Evidence continues to accumulate about human and wildlife exposure to chemical compounds called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, collectively referred to as…

Credit: Karen Block/UC Davis Is cultivated meat -- essentially, animal protein grown under lab conditions -- a nourishing prospect to help feed the world, or is it more sizzle than steak? A consortium of researchers at the…

Credit: University of Guelph Got a cat that always seems hungry? New University of Guelph research suggests you might want to reduce -- not increase -- how often you feed them. Animal nutrition specialists in U of G's Ontario…

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have categorized barthelonids, a group of microscopic anaerobic flagellates, as an early branching Metamonada lineage based on their genetic identity and mitochondrial evolutionary history…

The natural world is astonishingly complex. After centuries of study, scientists still have much to learn about how all the species in an ecosystem coexist, for example. New research on microbial communities published in Nature…

Researchers develop a human skin mimic to study mosquito biting in high resolution without using humans as 'bait'Credit: Felix Hol (CC BY 4.0) Scientists have developed a tool for studying the biting behaviour of common…

A small subpopulation of polar bears lives on what used to be thick, multiyear sea ice far above the Arctic Circle. The roughly 300 to 350 bears in Kane Basin, a frigid channel between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland, make up…

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba identify the protein PRMT1 as a key regulator of glial cell function during postnatal brain development Tsukuba, Japan - Normal brain development requires a precise interplay between neuronal and…

Credit: (Photo: Simon Thorn / University of Wuerzburg) Storms, fires, bark beetles: Many forests around the world are increasingly affected by these and other natural disturbances. It is common practice to eliminate the…

Researchers study relationship of morphological variation and biological diversity in plantsCredit: Photo: Marcus Koch Genome duplications play a major role in the development of forms and structures of plant organisms and their…