A protein called phytochrome B, which can sense light and temperature, triggers plant growth and controls flowering time. How it does so is not fully… Read More »Study identifies new temperature sensing mechanism in plants
An international team of scientists studying lifespans of wild mammals have found that, just like humans, females tend to live significantly longer than their male… Read More »Scientists studies why females live longer than males
Plants and animals are fundamentally different in many ways, but one of the most obvious is in how they deal with temperature. “When it gets… Read More »Plants and animals are similiar in how they respond to climate
A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most familiar animals today, including humans. The… Read More »Ancestor of all animals discovered in Australian fossils
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Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating and adapting to an average direction of the group, a group of… Read More »Fish school by copying each other
New research shows that crustaceans such as shrimps, lobsters and crabs have more in common with their insect relatives than previously thought when it comes… Read More »How brains of shrimps and insects are similar
The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic example of natural self-organization. As zebrafish embryos develop, three types of pigment cells move around the skin,… Read More »How Zebrafish got their stripes
The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, was co-directed by Peter Ungar, Distinguished Professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. The researchers performed… Read More »The early domestication of dogs
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