Research published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes a newly discovered species of dinosaur -- named the 'one who causes fear', or Llukalkan aliocranianus.
Around 80 million years ago as tyrannosaurs ruled the Northern Hemisphere, this lookalike was one of...
Imagine a future where a guided biomachine put into your body seeks out defective gene sequences in each cell and edits in the correct information with precision accuracy.
It's called gene editing, and University of Alberta researchers have just published...
Though noise may change moment by moment for humans, it has a more lasting effect on trees and plants.
A new Cal Poly study reveals that human noise pollution affects the diversity of plant life in an ecosystem even after...
Professor of Biological Science David Houle's new study examines the links between mutation and evolution.
Credit: Bill Lax/FSU Photography Services
Small, seemingly insignificant mutations in fruit flies may actually hold clues as to how a species will evolve tens of millions...
Many of the world's most common or deadly human pathogens are RNA-based viruses—Ebola, Zika and flu, for example—and most have no FDA-approved treatments. A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has now turned...
Life is usefully defined on the basis of process: Any set of entities that participates in the process of evolution by natural selection is alive. But how does evolution by natural selection—and thus life—get started? The answer is far...
While bacteria that produce electricity have been found in exotic environments like mines and the bottoms of lakes, scientists have missed a source closer to home: the human gut.
University of California, Berkeley, scientists discovered that a common diarrhea-causing bacterium,...
A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a result of our genes.
Empathy has two parts: the ability to recognize another person's thoughts...
When babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs...
This image shows the shapes made of living tissue made by the researchers. By patterning mechanically active mouse or human cells to thin layers of extracellular fibers, the researchers could create bowls, coils, and ripple shapes.
Credit: Alex Hughes
Many of...
Researchers in the Prakash Lab created a scaled-up robotic swimmer to learn how the parasite that causes schistosomiasis disease swims. (Image credit: Kurt Hickman)
Bioengineers combined live observation, mathematical insights and robots to reveal the movement of parasitic larvae that...
