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Watch how researchers use RNA to track where neurons' axons end in the mouse brain.

Contrary to its name, the ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.) grows in the desert, and researchers are studying its genome to better understand how it survives droughts.

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Jaguars (Panthera onca) are the largest cats in the Americas, but habitat loss is driving a slow decline in their numbers.

Waves of calcium ions begin to propagate across cardiac cells in a mouse embryo just hours before the animal's first heartbeat.

This developing plant shoot grew in a spiral after researchers disrupted the molecular pathway responsible for leaf organization.

This box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) lives in the Caribbean, where it feeds on copepods among roots of mangrove trees.

Scientists date the origin of symbiosis between coral and algae to 210 million years ago.

Elephant poaching across Africa could cost $25 million in lost tourism-related revenue every year, researchers estimate.

Nobel's diversity problem, Brexit and science, letters of recommendation skew sexist, and NIH's public perception troubles

This year's life sciences salary survey turned up some interesting trends in the U.S. and around the world.

Visit the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, where researchers are striving to find a cure for anosmia, the loss of a sense of smell.

Researcher Michal Schwartz discusses the promise of neuroimmunology to treat neurological disease.

Irish researchers convert seals into remote oceanographic sensors by attaching tags containing temperature probes and other technologies to their heads.

The bristles on the feet of this Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) help the mammal keep itself clean.