A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds ...

A lab study on crickets has revealed sex differences in how the insects direct their nutritional resources to increase ...

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The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Ohio State University researchers discovered male crickets bulk up and store energy, while female crickets invest in ...

Eastern Michigan University biology professor Cara Shillington has "thousands of spiders" in her home and is heading to the ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when the idea of home appliances that could think for themselves, and for you, felt like ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge.

Basic research, often termed fundamental, frontier, blue-sky, curiosity-driven—or even useless—is the pursuit of knowledge ...

Rhode Island is suing the Trump administration over its Aug. 22 order to halt construction on Revolution Wind — an offshore wind farm located 15 miles off the coast of R.I. — just hours after ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in the stability of their ...