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.
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An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new...
For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in -- and then played back from -- DNA in living cells.
Credit: Image courtesy of NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded...
C. mast is a commensal bacterium living on the surface of the eye.
Credit: Rachel Caspi and Anthony St. Leger
Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for immune responses that...
This is a photograph of a sea spider.
Credit: Timothy R. Dwyer (PolarTREC 2016), Courtesy of ARCUS
To keep blood and oxygen flowing throughout their bodies, most animals depend on a beating heart. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on July...
Tropical forest logging has contributed to population declines in many animals, including the Bornean gibbon, known for its whooping call.
Credit: Gerardo Ceballos
No bells tolled when the last Catarina pupfish on Earth died. Newspapers didn't carry the story when the...
Professor Laurence Zwiebel, left, and graduate student Stephen Ferguson in the insectary where they study ants' sense of smell.
Credit: John Russell, Vanderbilt University
It's a waxy layer that covers their bodies and is the source of the complex aromas that...
This is a side view of the plesiosaur model in the hydrodynamic simulation.
Credit: Ms Pernille V Troelsen
When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks -- some of which were up to 7...
Brown long-eared bat swooping in for a tasty treat.
Credit: Prof Anders Hedenström
Bats catch food 'on the wing' without touching the ground, but how do they do it? A new study by Per Henningsson at Lund University, Sweden is the...
California spotted owls in Yosemite National Park benefit from a habitat mosaic created by fire.
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Fire is a crucial part of the forest ecosystem on which threatened Spotted Owls rely, but climate change and decades of fire suppression...
The Canadian boreal forest is dominated by the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle.
Credit: University of Toronto Scarborough
Rudy Boonstra has been doing field research in Canada's north for more than 40 years.
Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake...
Common brown mantis.
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A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology has just published the results.
Praying...
