Overfishing likely did not cause the Atlantic cod, an iconic species, to evolve genetically and mature earlier, according to a study led by Rutgers University and the University of Oslo—the first of its kind—with major implications for ocean conservation.
"Evolution...
A University of Central Florida researcher is co-author of a new paper that may help answer why some animals have a magnetic 'sixth' sense, such as sea turtles' ability to return to the beach where they were born.
The question...
Washington State University researchers have found that salmon face a double whammy when they swim in the stormwater runoff of urban roadways.
First, as scientists learned a couple years ago, toxic pollution in the water can kill them. WSU researchers...
It is now possible to create complex, custom-designed transmembrane proteins from scratch, scientists report this week. The advance, led by molecular engineers at the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, will enable researchers to create transmembrane proteins not...
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered how a potent bacterial toxin is able to target and kill MRSA, paving the way for potential new treatments for superbugs.
New research, led by Dr. Stéphane Mesnage from the University of...
When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada's remote Yukon territory, she was hoping to find microscopic fossils of early life. Even with detailed field plans, the odds of finding just the right rocks were...
A, Cartoon of the front of the Drosophila brain showing the ~100 clock neurons. The current study recorded from the 4 large pigment dispersing factor (PDF)-expressing ventral lateral neurons (LNv) clock neurons that receive several light inputs. B, The...
This is EVE, the artificial womb.
Credit: Women and Infants Research Foundation
An artificial womb has been successfully used to incubate healthy baby lambs for a period of one week, and researchers hope the technology will one day be able to...
The functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 percent, suggests new research.
Credit: © DigitalGenetics / Fotolia
An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new...
A neural network-driven Earth system model has led University of California, Irvine oceanographers to a surprising conclusion: phytoplankton populations will grow in low-latitude waters by the end of the 21st century.
The unexpected simulation outcome runs counter to the longstanding...
A team of scientists from Scripps Research and Stanford University has recorded in real time a key step in the assembly of ribosomes—the complex and evolutionarily ancient "molecular machines" that make proteins in cells and are essential for all...
