If there's one pattern that's dominated 2024 so far, it's leopard print. From Damson Madder's Insta-viral leopard gilet to those M&S leopard jeans (yes, we’re still on the waitlist), the fashion ...

“In that way, we may be able to track down if and how this virus is spreading human-to-human, or if there are people getting ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

"Mosquitoes are responsible for killing 2,000 people a day," says Grayson Brown, executive director, Puerto Rico Vector ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found that the way DNA is packaged in cells can directly impact how fast DNA itself is copied during cell division. They discovered that DNA packaging sends ...

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

changing weather patterns driven by global heating trends may create new stressors that a wildlife manager can't address. But it might be possible to reduce how many times these animals have to ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

The assortment of species of tiny soil animals—small enough to stand on ... The authors attributed the break in the pattern found with other organisms in urban parks to the diminutive size ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...