The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys.
By reprogramming human fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells with somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists have come up with a viable alternative to iPSCs.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
New studies of tadpole shrimp and other organisms show that the term “living fossil” is inaccurate and misleading.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.