Tag: biology
Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on...
Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by...
Allan Albig, Boise State University
Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably...
MicroRNA − a new Nobel laureate describes the scientific process of...
Victor Ambros, UMass Chan Medical School
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and...
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and...
Natasha S. Vitek, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
A rare, nearly complete fossil of an...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Why don’t fruit bats get diabetes? New understanding of how they’ve...
Wei Gordon, Menlo College and Nadav Ahituv, University of California, San Francisco
People around the world eat too much...
How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics...
Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder
Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches,...
Biological sex is far from binary − this college course examines the...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....