Research: Insights into how sex cells fail, and how one species becomes two —

Baker's yeast survive and grow after a drastic reorganization, not of their genes, but of the chromosome superstructures that house, protect and control...

Research: New dinosaur found in the wrong place, at the wrong time —

A new dinosaur called Lingwulong shenqi or 'amazing dragon from Lingwu' has been discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team involving UCL. The announcement, published in...

Research: Exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth —

Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on...

Research: Temperature increases during dry periods outpace average climate warming —

Dry months are getting hotter in large parts of the United States, another sign that human-caused climate change is forcing people to encounter...

Research: Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells enables efficiency improvements —

Even solar cells made of a perfect miracle material would never be able to convert 100 % of sunlight to electrical energy. This...

Research: How climate is changing our forests —

Many studies on the impacts of global temperature rise have suggested that the range of trees will migrate poleward and upward. However, research...

Research: Zebra finches perceive only red or orange, even when the truth falls somewhere...

For a small, reddish-beaked bird called the zebra finch, sexiness is color-coded. Males have beaks that range from light orange to dark red....

Research: Study suggests carbon stored in soil is entering atmosphere faster, thanks to microbes...

The vast reservoir of carbon stored beneath our feet is entering Earth's atmosphere at an increasing rate, most likely as a result of...

Research: We now know that the finest gem-quality diamonds come from the farthest down...

Blue diamonds -- like the world-famous Hope Diamond at the National Museum of Natural History -- formed up to four times deeper in...

Research: Fungus invades fruit fly nervous system and alters its behavior before death —

Carolyn Elya discovered the puppet-master on the balcony of her Berkeley apartment. It was a fungus that infects fruit flies, invading their nervous...

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