A hormone makes these plants thrive in the face of stress
It could help to engineer crops that can better cope with extreme weather.
It could help to engineer crops that can better cope with extreme weather.
Virtual code has become virtual DNA.
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Plans are just like us... well, in a way at least.
Turns out, Darwin was really good about understanding evolution.
I have the utmost respect for everyone who made this happen.
Anything larger would need more blood than a heart can pump.
Birds of Paradise have similar structures.
The work has only been tested in the lab but, so far, the results are encouraging.
There are two ways to look at this: one is upbeat and optimistic, but the other is much darker.
Despite their sedentary lifestyles, plants have a lot more going on than it seems.
Century-old samples might teach us something new about climate change.
These plants could become our climate "canary in the coal mine".
Celebrate this day biology's way!
Life to the rescue!
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Big science going on at the small scale.
I'm gonna need a smaller controller.
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When researchers started raising 48 bacteria species aboard the International Space Station, they weren't really sure what to expect. They ...
When Obama became president, one of his promises was to close the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility. Now, as he's nearing the ...
Morgan Beeby and his colleagues at the Imperial College London used electron microscopy to image these biological motors in high ...
A new study finds that many cancers are caused by mutations that block the tumor suppressor gene’s effect, through a ...
Piotr Naskrecki, a Harvard biologist, did what few people would have the courage to do - he let maggots grow ...
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to enlarge and map brain samples. This inexpensive ...
The 2nd prize was won by Thomas Deerink, from the University of California, San Diego, for a rat brain cerebellum, ...
The human body is a complex biological machine, where each part of the system works in tandem, from cells to ...
An accurate depiction of what Shark Week is all about these days. I've given up on watching TV years ago ...
While 3D printing at the consumer level has mostly been a novelty, the applications in the medical community have been ...
A team or Scottish scientists are pushing material science on the extreme side by conducting research which, they hope, will ...
Cyanide is nasty. I don't care if you're a venomous snake, an elephant or Charlie Sheen, cyanide is something you ...
In a recent act that just baffles my mind, Tennesee, not one of the US brightest states, has passed a ...
Elephants are absolutely amazing animals, from numerous points of view; they are extremely loyal and loving creatures, they have evolved ...
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You know those days when you go to the beach, and it's just too hot outside, so you have to ...
It's always nice when new species are discovered, and this time it was an expedition from Papua New Guinea that ...
Mycobacterium vaccae is a type of bacteria that naturally leaves in soil and has been in the attention of researchers ...
As any fourth grader will tell you, photosynthesis is (in layman terms), the process through which plants (and bacteria, algae, ...
The biggest beaver dam is (get ready folks), twice as long as the Hoover dam, measuring 2,790 ft (over 800 ...
Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth ...
The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length ...
At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists ...
Scarlett Johansson. Not related in anyway to the study... but a fine example. Well we all know the effect a ...
Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently ...
The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance ...
Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of York is the first who spotted a member of ...
Man I tell you, you can never have enough mushrooms... it's really hard to put my finger on it, but ...