Deep beneath the shifting sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, a massive marine mammal moves slowly through waters that remain near ...

A genome-wide evolutionary analysis of several viruses found no signs of pre-spillover adaptation. Instead, detectable ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of ...

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Researchers mapped the structure of augmin, a protein complex that drives microtubule branching in plant cell division. In ...

According to the data considered by its authors—a team from the University of Sussex (UK) and Lund University ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality based on ...