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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have revealed a key defence system in plants to ...

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

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, ...

The exams are two weeks away and we have a double act on this edition of Study Hub 2026 - part of Today with David McCullagh ...

Researchers from Michigan State University have received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Health to continue studying endometriosis, a condition where tissue grows on the outside of ...

Susana Wadgymar, a biology professor and evolutionary ecologist at Davidson College, has been honored by the Ecological ...