Biology News

The UK’s national computing grid, along with their counterparts in the US (TeraGrid) and Europe have helped UCL (University College London) scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated.

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

For a team of paleontologists interested in fossil mammals, the Fayum district of Egypt summons an impressive history that extends much further back in time than the Sphinx.

Deposits range from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato.

Scientists at the University of York have characterised an important new step in the mechanism used by bacteria to evade our immune system.

Burmese pythons—an invasive species in south Florida—could find comfortable climatic conditions in roughly a third of the United States according to new "climate maps" developed by the U.S. Geological Survey

The new frog resembles living Horned toads (ceratophryines or 'pac-man frogs') in having a squat body, huge head and wide mouth.

If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow.

System should help scientists better understand how nerve cells in the brain work together to form the nervous system.

Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency.