Energy giant sued as Spain power lines kill 100s of birds

Barcelona prosecutors are suing energy giant Endesa for the deaths of hundreds of birds electrocuted by…

Carnegie Mellon/Yale PNA-based technique an essential part of the gene editing toolkit

In an article published in the April 8 issue of Nature, the National Institutes of Health’s…

Junctions between three cells serve as gateways for the transport of substances

Within multicellular organisms, cells build connections with each other forming cell layers that cover the surfaces…

Perceptions of barriers may keep budding entrepreneurs from building businesses

Teaching people to become entrepreneurs requires more than just passing on entrepreneurial skills, according to a…

Why lists of worldwide bird species disagree

How many species of birds are there in the world? It depends on whose count you…

Ant responses to social isolation resemble those of humans

Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals.…

Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee

While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, U.S., researchers from Uppsala University discovered…

Probing for life in the icy crusts of ocean worlds

Long before NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, one of…

PIA24542: Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity

           Target: Mars Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover Instrument:  Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics…

New biosensor makes control hormone auxin visible in cells

The hormone auxin is of central importance for the development of plants. Scientists at the University…