This research adds to our understanding of how bees -- insects with a brain no bigger than a pinhead -- can perform complex tasks.
Credit: © sumikophoto / Fotolia
Nicotine-laced nectar can speed up a bumblebee's ability to learn flower colours,...
Researchers transplanted a transparent artificial forewing, or elytron, onto a Coccinella septempunctata seven-spotted ladybug (left) to observe its wing-folding process in detail. The artificial wing is made of ultraviolet light-cured resin and constructed from a silicon impression of the...
An African sedge warbler, a species with a simple song that is also adapted to eating insects.
Credit: Jordan Moore
Which came first, overall bigger brains or larger brain regions that control specialized behaviors? Neuroscientists have debated this question for decades,...
The Zilantophis schuberti is a newly identified snake species found in eastern Tennessee. This small creature lived roughly 5 million years ago.
Credit: Image by Steven Jasinski
An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional...
This photo shows members of the excavation team digging around the skeleton of Mystacodon selenensis at the Media Luna locality in the Pisco Basin, Peru.
Credit: Giovanni Bianucci
Modern whales' ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating...
This is a schematic of the Rising Star cave system.
Credit: Marina Elliott/Wits University
Scientists today announced that the Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries, only a year and a half after it was announced that the...
"Neo" skull of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber is shown.
Credit: Photo by John Hawks/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Probing deeper into the South African cave system known as Rising Star, a subterranian maze that last year yielded the largest cache of...
Variation in the colour of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of variation in the amount of melanin in...
The world's largest genetic study of childhood overgrowth syndromes .
Researchers have undertaken the world's largest genetic study of childhood overgrowth syndromes - providing new insights into their causes, and new recommendations for genetic testing
Overgrowth syndromes describe...
The size of the hepatocytes reaches its maximum at the end of the night (top) and its minimum at the end of the day (bottom), in mice.
Credit: © Ueli Schibler, UNIGE
In mammals, the liver plays a pivotal role in...
This is a Chenanisaurus barbaricus.
Credit: Dr Nick Longrich, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco....
