School of tuna fish in the ocean.
Credit: © Richard Carey / Fotolia
The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, developed a new method combining behavioral analyses with a computer model to map the chain of direct interactions in a school...
This is the experimental set-up used to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces.
Credit: Anjuli Barber, Messerli Research Institute
Dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces, according to a new study in the...
This is the experimental apparatus to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces.
Credit: Clever Dog Lab, Messerli Research Institute
A team of cognitive scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has demonstrated for the first time...
Princeton researchers have examined how individual cells act collectively to form structures called biofilms that often play a critical role in disease and other processes. Shown above is a simulation of the bacteria Vibrio cholerae forming a biofilm, with...
These are water droplets on a lotus leaf.
Credit: C. Falcón Garcia / Technical University of Munich
Dental plaque and the viscous brown slime in drainpipes are two familiar examples of bacterial biofilms. Removing such bacterial depositions from surfaces is often...
Rat (stock image).
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Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception. The implanted rats also show some degree of healing in their spinal cords. The...
Nanostructures of the wing of Pachliopta aristolochiae can be transferred to solar cells and enhance their absorption rates by up to 200 percent.
Credit: Radwanul H. Siddique, KIT/Caltech
Sunlight reflected by solar cells is lost as unused energy. The wings of...
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that affects nearly one million children and adults in the United States.
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Penn Medicine researchers have singled out a bacterial enzyme behind an imbalance in the gut microbiome linked...
This is Dr Nicola Wilck at the lab bench.
Credit: Müller lab, MDC
Common salt reduces the number of certain lactic acid bacteria in the gut of mice and humans according to a study published in Nature by Berlin's Max Delbrück...
This is a bull trout, a popular fish species of conservation concern, that find shelter in mountain stream climate refugia.Credit: Bart Gamett, U.S. Forest Service
A new study offers hope for cold-water species in the face of climate change. The...
The experimental mouse on the right lacks a gene for ankyrin-B, causing his fat cells to slurp up twice as much glucose and making him fatter than his normal companion at left.
Credit: UNC Nutrition and Obesity Research Center
Obesity is...
