Category: Life sciences

Animals, plants and the laboratory: behaviour, evolution and the biology that keeps turning out to be stranger than expected.

Bearded crows can create tools by combining two or more unrelated pieces that are useless individually. Such abilities have so far only…

April 29, 2022

The remarkable ability of dandelion seeds to move through the air is made possible by a form of flight not previously observed…

April 27, 2022

How cells that allow people to see colors are made? To answer this question, the researchers created a human retina in the…

April 25, 2022

Researchers have developed a drug combination that has nearly doubled the life span of nematodes. The cocktail of chemicals also allowed the…

April 20, 2022

Nature can surprise you. Occasionally, biologists come across a creature that is really strange. This is perfectly illustrated by a species of…

April 18, 2022

The world of some insects can resemble a horror movie. Emerald ash borer, whose larvae feed on the living flesh of American…

April 8, 2022