Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness
Mechanisms of transition from male/female sexual system to hermaphroditism in brown algae uncovered
Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years
What we perceive might sometimes reflect the outcome of a value-based decision-making process, a new analysis of the literature suggests.
Researchers discover a novel mutualism between fungi and insects
Tobacco hornworms neutralize different defense mechanisms of tobacco plants after ingestion
Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.
Researchers from Jena show how the poison nut tree forms strychnine
New method in algae research could lead to future yield increases in crops
Changes in carotenoid metabolism can simultaneously influence yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional content in plants
This year, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam honours again a young scientist for his pioneering research on plant mitochondria.
Possibility of de novo domestication of wild plants by cultivated plants
The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study.
Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought.
Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.
Pioneering research deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and satellite modelling means the thickness of Arctic sea ice can be measured all year round for the first time, bringing significant benefits for future weather forecasts and shipping in the region.
Small molecules, largely ignored until now, have regulatory functions in stress reduction
COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults from the first wave of the pandemic.
There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth - breeding, birth, survival, life span and death - between dehorned or horned black rhinos new research, conducted by the University of Bristol Vet School, Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, and Save the Rhino Trust has found.
With the help of instruments designed partly in Canada, a team of Université de Montréal astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water.