Hummingbirds make bromeliad plants split into new species twice as fast as other pollinators do, scientists at the University ...

A genomic analysis of historical and modern bacterial samples showed how Acinetobacter baumannii accumulated antibiotic ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner ...

In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its ...

More than a century ago, embryologist Hilde Mangold conducted a strange experiment that transformed biology. As a PhD student in the 1920s, she moved a lump of cells from embryos of one newt species ...

Analysis of hospital samples dating back to the 1970s has revealed how Acinetobacter baumannii—a notoriously stubborn ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

While the official world record for the fastest spider is held by the Moroccan flic-flac spider ( Cebrennus rechenbergi ), ...

Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly antibiotic-resistant "superbug" quietly tightened its grip across the globe. It lurked in ...