Biology News

A plant scientist's discovery of a previously unknown component in plants' immune systems provides new clues to how plants and humans fend off diseases and how invaders stifle immunity.

Scientists have produced new evidence to finally resolve the mysterious identity of what they regard as one of the weirdest organisms that ever lived.

A protein acting as a long-distance signal from leaf to shoot-tip tells plants when to flower, says new research published in Science Express.

First direct evidence that remarkably long-lived wavelike electronic quantum coherence plays an important part in energy transfer processes during photosynthesis.

Ancient aquatic amphibians developed the ability to feed on land before completing the transition to terrestrial life.

For human pilots, formation flying takes years to master, but migratory birds have it down to a fine art. Yet the reason why geese, for example, fly in a V-shape has long been something of a mystery.

Unusual jellyfish look like serpent-haired Medusa

Scientists have found new evidence related to the Earth’s earliest forests, putting to rest some speculation as to what trees might have looked like millions of years ago.

Further study could help determine green tea’s protective role in other autoimmune diseases, including lupus, psoriasis, scleroderma and rheumatoid arthritis.