Biology
The latest biology stories, curated daily by InsectNews — Science, engineering, and discovery — the research and breakthroughs that matter.
- An unusual sexual bond between a bull and a male donkey
- Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments
- Lion droppings yield previously unknown microbial species, exposing hidden diversity inside Africa's big cats
- Ancient fungus unlocks secret support system in major food crops that could transform farming practices
- Learning reshapes inhibitory synapses differently within the same nerve cell, study suggests
- Humans and songbirds hear the same sounds, but organize them differently
- Powerful X-rays reveal unexpected roles for water in enzymes linked to cancer and penicillin
- Nickel catalyst unlocks hard-to-make β-amino alcohols
- Mission success: Australian cancer research returns from space
- Diet alone cannot explain differences in gut bacterial communities
- Global pollination analysis reveals climate explains specialized partnerships better than latitude
- How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas
- Climate refuges may be key to restoring imperiled amphibians
- Mapping the 'social network' of proteins in the cell to understand how genes shape living things
- Japan's 2011 tsunami sparked fish hybridization, but species boundaries largely held