After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

A newly described ant species found in Japan reproduces without males and maintains colonies composed entirely of queens, a ...

A long-standing principle of genetics held that every body cell contains two active copies of each gene. In 1984, Davor Solter and Azim Surani ...

For their discovery of genomic imprinting, developmental biologists Davor Solter and Azim Surani will receive the 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig ...

For their discovery of genomic imprinting, developmental biologists Davor Solter and Azim Surani will receive the 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, endowed with €120,000, on March 14 at ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas get very little rain each year. The soil is salty, and in some places it even contains harmful elements like arsenic.

A recent study from the University of Cologne has revealed that microscopic soil worms called nematodes form surprisingly ...

Eustress, or positive stress, can motivate individuals, aid in achieving goals, and contribute to overall well-being and a sense of fulfillment. Unlike distress, which arises from negative experiences ...

Jacques Loeb is dead—the greatest exponent Since Haeckel of what he called “the mechanistic conception of life.” And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed ...

IN reply to the queries contained in the letter of Dr. Bushnell, it may at once be said that parthenogenesis is known to follow the application of certain stimuli in the case of a few animals and ...

AMONG the lower groups of Crustacea, namely, the phyllopods, cladocera and ostracods, parthenogenesis is a well-known phenomenon and in many cases it is the only one known by which reproduction takes ...