High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.
It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...
A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...
Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the problem of placing sequences into a given phylogenetic tree, called a “backbone tree”. EPA-ng and pplacer are the two most accurate phylogenetic placement ...
Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...
A research team has identified a key gene from the rubber tree that helps plants better defend themselves against both disease and environmental stress by precisely controlling reactive oxygen species ...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...
New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.
Introduction: Porcine circovirus (PCV) belongs to the family Circoviridae. Four conventional PCVs (PCV1 to PCV4) have been discovered over time. PCV1 and PCV2 exhibit higher nucleotide identity ...