The results of a new study could lead to a better understanding of how to improve the health of dairy cows, and keep the milk flowing.
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Daily infusions with a chemical commonly associated with feelings of...
Global climate change caused by soot aerosol at the K-Pg boundary.Credit: Kunio Kaiho
A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University...
Scott Davies, a postdoctoral associate in biological sciences in the College of Science, measured territorial aggression in male song sparrows at three rural and three urban sites in the New River Valley during the spring of 2015.Credit: Courtesy of...
A duckling trained on a 'different shape' stimulus looks away from the 'same shape' stimulus (two spheres) in the background.Credit: Antone Martinho
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings can readily acquire the concepts of...
Life reconstruction of skeletal remains of Gualicho shinyae and stratigraphic and geographic details of the find. (A) Map of Rio Límay region of northern Patagonia, showing where the holotype of Gualicho shinyae was discovered (star) (B) Schematic stratigraphic column...
Aminopeptidase N is a protein that acts as a receptor for coronaviruses, the family of viruses behind recent epidemics of SARS and MERS, among others. Researchers found evidence that this protein has adapted repeatedly during mammalian evolution to evade...
Why do some organisms within a single species have many offspring, while others have relatively few? A new study led by University of Minnesota researcher Emilie Snell-Rood finds that access to some nutrients may be a star player in...
"It's intuitive that if a bunch of people are randomly walking around an area, the number of times they bump into each other will be a surrogate of the population density," says Cameron Musco, an MIT graduate student in...
Mountain lion habitats. Credit: National Park Service/Flickr
Los Angeles is one of only two megacities—Mumbai, India, is the other—where large predatory cats live among us, and they're closer to human development than you might think.
Mountain lions are rarely seen, but...
Pectoral Sandpipers and other shorebirds are being exposed to high levels of mercury in Alaska.Credit: B. Lagasse
Shorebirds breeding in Alaska are being exposed to mercury at levels that could put their populations at risk, according to new research from...
Preening helps ravens form and maintain social bonds with each other. Credit: Copyright: Flickr/yeliseev
Transmission of information from one individual to another forms the basis of long-term traditions and culture, and is critical in adjusting to changing environmental conditions. Animals...
