Climate Change: Archaeologists reveal human resilience in the face of climate change in ancient...

Photo: Microscope image of Iron Age oak twig from Tell Tayinat in Hatay,...

E. Coli calculus: Bacteria find the derivative optimally

Photo: The University of Tokyo researchers use information theory to show that the...

Research: Study of ants reveals the evolutionary benefits of group living —

Common wisdom suggests that two heads are better than one. Yet, two heads can also butt -- and when resources are scarce, competition...

Research: Tasmanian devil cancer unlikely to cause extinction, say experts —

A new study of Tasmanian devils has revealed that a transmissible cancer which has devastated devil populations in recent years in unlikely to...
Seagrass restoration research shows rapid recovery of ecosystem functions

Seagrass restoration research shows rapid recovery of ecosystem functions

As the dominant seagrass species on the U.S. West Coast, eelgrass supports a wide range of ecosystem services and functions, making its preservation and...

Research: New surfaces create promise of safer implants, more accurate diagnostic tests —

Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel everything, such as bacteria, viruses and living...

Research: Is Antarctica becoming more like Greenland? —

Antarctica is high and dry and mostly bitterly cold, and it's easy to think of its ice and snow as locked away in...

Study: Genetic exchange discovered in anciently asexual rotifers (TDnews)

Photo: Bdelloid rotifers (A. vaga) under the microscope. ...

Research: Ubiquitous marine plants dissipate wave energy and could help protect vulnerable shorelines —

Most people's experience with seagrass, if any, amounts to little more than a tickle on their ankles while wading in shallow coastal waters....
Study breakthrough in fight against chytrid fungus

Study breakthrough in fight against chytrid fungus

For frogs dying of the invasive chytridiomycosis disease, the leading cause of amphibian deaths worldwide, the genes responsible for protecting them may actually be...

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