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.
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.
Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought.
Researchers discover a novel mutualism between fungi and insects
Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years
Mechanisms of transition from male/female sexual system to hermaphroditism in brown algae uncovered
Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness
Novel approach for determining timescales might pave way for new insights in neuroscience
Proteins have numerous functions in the human body.
The bacteria that reside in the human gut, otherwise known as “the gut microbiome,” are known to play both beneficial and harmful roles in human health.
Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns – not just colours – when searching for food, new research shows.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have published new research showing that a species of bacteria which infects fruit flies is capable of introducing parts of its genetic material into that of the fruit fly.
A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs
Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.
Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown.
A woman’s mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.
Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures on cells throughout our bodies that beat rhythmically to serve a variety of functions when they are working properly, including circulating cerebrospinal fluid in brains and transporting eggs in fallopian tubes.
Palaeontologists from Flinders University in South Australia have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea.