A particular predator defense used by water fleas makes them more susceptible to parasite infections, new research shows.
A particular predator defense used by water fleas makes them more susceptible to parasite infections, new research shows.
Scientists invent a method to control the timing and duration of sleep in fruit flies and find that snoozing helps form long-term memories
Researchers seeking a link between vision problems and the dangerous physiological effects of hypoxia in mountain climbers are taking their work to new heights.
Researchers are using real-world methods to study traumatic brain injuries in a comic book
Larger spores of a deadly fungal pathogen cause more virulent infections in mice
A new study finds that Stephen J. Gould's criticisms of another scientist's data were misplaced, and the eminent biologist and historian succumbed to data bias himself
When mice are held in isolation, stem cells in the hippocampus make more of themselves and wait for better times
New estimates of human mutation suggest that each of us harbor approximately 60 novel genetic mutations
The more closely related two species are, the more they're apt to drive one another to extinction