Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
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Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A putative ion channel integral to mammalian hearing turns out to be an elusive salt-sensing chemoreceptor in nematode worms.
A genetic analysis of Siberians finds three genes that have evolved to help the populations weather the frigid winters.
A Taiwanese businessman has created a new science award that gives recipients more money than Nobel Laureates.
The authors of a review article on genome-wide association studies have retracted the paper due to “substantial textual overlap” with other sources.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
Genetics researcher and senior vice president of the pharmaceutical giant, David Cox, has passed away unexpectedly at age 66.
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