A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

Mary, a 54-year-old Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo, is the “queen of showering,” but her companion Anchali seems to have figured out how to exploit that habit to play pranks ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching in high temperatures, according to a new study.

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Artificial light disrupts the circadian rhythms of honeybees, which is posing a risk to their role as pollinators.

A “woke” university has added trigger warnings for biology students studying “graphic” images of human anatomy. Students studying life sciences at Reading University received the alert when they were ...

These miniature immune system models — known as human immune organoids — mimic the real-life environment where immune cells ...

Researchers at UC San Diego discovered that artificial light significantly disrupts the circadian rhythms of honey bees, ...

Molecular biology and structural biology are both critical fields at the forefront of current scientific advancements, ...

Temperatures have become too warm in the southern parts of the Gulf of Maine for kelp forests, a foundation for marine life.