Biology isn’t just about memorizing lines from a textbook. It’s about understanding life itself. And when you truly ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Humans blink a lot. The rate varies by person, but your eyelids flutter 900 to1,200 per hour. That adds up to as many as ...

Unexpected deposits of bacteria have been found inside brain tumors, apparently affecting how the cancers grow and behave, a ...

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

Researchers analyzed venomous snake strikes, revealing remarkable speed and precision in less than a blink of an eye.

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology ...

The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study ...

About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to cabernet sauvignon. Today, cabernet sauvignon is the world's most-planted wine grape, dominating vineyards from ...