How animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate is one of biology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor Teresa Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences a five-year CAREER grant totaling $1.1 million to study how the proteins that ...

Researchers say the type of light students sit under all day may shape sleep, focus and hormones.

The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

The third eye is not just a metaphysical yoga concept. Scientists have discovered the origins of the peculiar median cornea ...

Mosquitoes can learn to associate the smell of the world's most common insect repellent with a tasty meal and after training can even prefer to ...

Every summer, millions of people spray themselves with DEET to keep mosquitoes away. But new research suggests mosquitoes may ...

Severed body parts from a sea cucumber survived for over three years in a lab, healing themselves and absorbing nutrients ...

Why does the gut microbiome lose its balance as we age? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann ...

Many cancers can be treated by administering DNA-damaging agents, such as platinum-based chemotherapy, because the resulting DNA damage causes the cancer cells to die. A subset of cancers, however, ...

Drinking nitrate-rich beetroot juice may do more than support heart health — it could actually reshape the bacteria living in the mouth in ways that help lower blood pressure in older adults. In the ...