Biology

Knowing the effects of the climate crisis on ectotherm aging would help to design better conservation and management programs, researcher says

This microswimming mechanism could explain how both immune cells and cancer cells migrate in various fluid-filled niches in the body, for good or for harm

Designing diamond lattices and other crystals from microscopic building blocks

The management of fungal infections in plants and humans could be transformed by a breakthrough in understanding how fungi develop resistance to drugs

This disappeared species from Parque Nacional da Serra da Bocaina, Brazil, known only from a museum specimen collected in 1968, was detected by eDNA surveys

The newly identified species belongs to the genus Phallocryptus of which only four species were previously known from different arid and semiarid regions

USFS scientists advance genetic understanding of African baobab tree

How our brains transform quantum-level events in photoreceptors to yield the many thousands of different hues we see every day is poorly understood

Research estimates that more than 100,000 people were already infected with COVID-19 by early March—when only 1,514 cases and 39 deaths had been officially reported

New database consists of over 33,000 unique viral populations in the gut