A team in Utah has found that bee deaths due to collisions with automobiles in the western parts of the United States may be ...

Governments could finally approve new UN standards for countries and companies wanting to trade carbon credits, a ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in each cell—what we refer to as genome size—spans an incredible range across ...

Scarlet macaws are a symbol of fidelity and virtue to many people because they are thought to mate for life—but it turns out that they also "play favorites" when feeding their young, making them ...

Biosensors play a key role in medical research and diagnostics. At present, however, they generally have to be specially developed for each application. A team led by LMU chemist Philip Tinnefeld has ...

A team of neurobiologists at Harvard Medical School's Howard Hughes Medical Institute has uncovered the neural mechanism ...

The largest trial of its kind in the U.K. has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying program can improve social ...

Spain was soaked in its wettest October on record last month which culminated in catastrophic floods that have killed 219 ...

Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research.

Chemists have synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a new strategy of functionalizing normally inert ...

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers reporting ...