In a dog-eat-dog world of ruthless competition and 'survival of the fittest,' new research from the University of Leicester reveals that individuals are genetically programmed to work together and cooperate ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 18, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 1 |

A study published online on April 12 in the journal Current Biology offers some news for parents: even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd. That sensitivity isn't unique to humans either; chimpanzees also a ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 12, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes, a recent study by researchers ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 11, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org) -- When tropical marine cone snails sink their harpoon-like teeth into their prey, they inject paralyzing venoms made from a potent mix of more than 100 different neurotoxins.

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 10, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by UCLA life scientists could lead to predictions of which plant species will escape extinction from climate change.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 06, 2012 4 / 5 (9) 0 |

Researchers have reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants.

Biology - Evolution

Apr 05, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations of tree-killing offspring annually, dramatically increasing the potential for bugs to kill lodgepole and ponderosa pine ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

Developments in evolutionary biology have a significant impact on the way we look at the world and ourselves in it, according to a conservation scientist who will be speaking on the subject at Cambridge University’s ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 26, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of behavior or intellectual ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 21, 2012 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

House mice (Mus musculus) happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology h ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 19, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the wilds of New York City -- or as wild as you can get so close to skyscrapers -- scientists have found a new leopard frog species that for years biologists mistook for a more widespread ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 14, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

An empirical answer to the question “can a scientist be religious” is easy: yes. Religious scientists are actually quite common. However, many would prefer to know whether or not it is rational for ...

Other Sciences - Other

Mar 12, 2012 2.3 / 5 (14) 160

Do bacteria, like higher organisms, have a built-in program that tells them when to die? The process of apoptosis, or cell death, is an important part of normal animal development. In a new study published March 6 in the ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 06, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Waterways in remote, pristine tropical forests located in the Caribbean and Central America contain levels of nitrogen comparable to amounts found in streams and rivers flowing through polluted forests in ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |