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Nine bacterial solar cells that combined generate 5.59 microwatts. Image: Seokheun "Sean" Choi

Biology

You’ve heard all about solar cells, but what about bacterial solar cells?

The newest and most refined tree of life. Clusters of bacteria (left), uncultivable bacteria called 'candidate phyla radiation' (center, purple) and, at lower right, the Archaea and eukaryotes (green), including humans. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Biology

Tree of life expanded to match reality: two third of all diversity is bacterial

April 12, 2016 - Updated on July 19, 2022

Biology

NASA just developed a way of detecting underground fungi – from space

Image credits flikr user david pacey

Biology

Sugar addiction could be treated with the same drugs we use for nicotine addiction

April 9, 2016 - Updated on April 10, 2016

A male trap-jaw spider. The long chelicerae are in front and you can see the fangs at the tip. They use their jaws to snap prey with lightning speed. Credit: Hannah Wood, Smithsonian

Animals

Tiny spiders no bigger than a pencil tip are fastest in the world

Picture of a little brown bat with white nose syndrome, taken in New York state, Oct 2008.
Image credits to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters.

Animals

White Nose Bat Syndrome spreads deeper into the U.S. — first case confirmed west of the Rockies

Biology

Ancient crustacean carried its young around like kites

MIT biological engineers have developed a programming language - for living cells. Image credit: Janet Iwasa.

Biology

Scientists develop Cello, a programming language for bacteria

NOAA captured the migration earlier today.
Image credits: NOAA.

Animals

NOAA photographs golden retrievers swimming back home from their mating run

Junk food DNA

Biology

Researchers on the hunt for students’ junk-food-gene

Digital visualization of Idmonarachne brasieri. Garwood et al 2016/MNHN, Paris

Biology

Almost a spider: Scientists find 300-million year old pre-spider

A close-up look at the transparent wood created at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Image credits KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Biology

KTH researchers develop transparent wood for use in building and solar panels

Image via Pixabay

Biology

FossilFriday: Ammonite Growth Chambers

Comb jellies such as Mnemiopsis leidyi have a through-gut, challenging when this evolutionary innovation arose. Photo by William Browne.

Biology

Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists

March 25, 2016 - Updated on March 26, 2016

Cryptotora thamicola. Credit: Danté Fenolio/Science Source

Animals

Very rare waterfall-climbing fish can walk like a salamander

via NASA.

Biology

This common bacterium grows 60% better in space than on Earth

Photo by John Benson.

Biology

City birds are smarter than country birds

Image credits to imgur user sushimushi

Animals

Slow-Life time lapse video gives a beautiful glimpse into the life of corals

March 23, 2016 - Updated on April 30, 2023

Fungal diversity in the Amazon rainforest is a tantalizing field, where sequence data can make a big difference. The photo is taken during soil sampling in a remote corner of the Amazon basin.
Image credits Camila Duarte Ritter.

Biology

The Most Wanted Fungi list compiled to guide mycologists’ research efforts

March 22, 2016 - Updated on March 23, 2016

Biology

Many species now going extinct may vanish without a fossil trace

vestigial features

Biology

You need not look any further than your own body for proof of evolution

Image via ulb.ac.be, credits to Albert Goldbeter.

Biology

Bread mold could build the batteries of the future

March 21, 2016 - Updated on March 22, 2016

A scattering of tiny white freckles give the Tanana arctic butterfly a "frosted" appearance. Photo by the University of Florida/Andrew Warren

Biology

Alaskan butterfly may be a rare hybrid

March 21, 2016 - Updated on February 15, 2019

The newly identified virus, known as WIV1-CoV, could bind to the same receptors as SARS-CoV.
Image credits CDC/Dr. Fred Murphy

Biology

New SARS-like virus can jump directly to humans from bats

Wheels of life.
Image credits Morgan Beeby/Imperial College London.

Biology

Biological wheels and motors imaged for the first time

Jumping spider drinking nectar at extrafloral nectaries of a shrub.
Image credits David E. Hill, Peckham Society, South Carolina.

Animals

No web, no worries — spiders also like to eat vegetarian

March 15, 2016 - Updated on April 20, 2023

Animals

Research team grows “dinosaur legs” on a chicken for the first time

March 15, 2016 - Updated on April 23, 2024

Image credits Richter Maganhildi.

Animals

Evolution selects the most effective genes — even by a hundredth of a percent

rabbit eye

Biology

Eye tissue grown from scratch in the lab used to restore sight to blind rabbits

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Animals

Asian bats resistant to white-nose syndrome that’s killing millions of North American bats

Animals

Dallas Zoo welcomes iconic, adorable new baby lizards

Image via wikimedia

Biology

Study hints at a form of bacterial collective memory

March 10, 2016 - Updated on March 11, 2016

Prof. Dr. Alexander Pfeifer and Katarina Klepac from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at University of Bonn.
Image credits Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn

Biology

This protein might be the key to developing the fabled slim-pill — that actually works

March 10, 2016 - Updated on March 11, 2016

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Animals

Eight animal species named after celebrities

March 9, 2016 - Updated on April 30, 2023

the japanese great tit

Animals

A bird uses syntax to convey meaning, a first among non-human animals

Young tomato plant, by Kiza (not from the ones in the study).

Agriculture

First tomatoes and peas harvested from Mars-like soil

Hydra vulgaris is shown with its two tissue layers transgenically labeled: ectoderm (outer layer) in green; endoderm (inner layer) in magenta.
Credit: Callen Hyland

Biology

Hydras rip their skin to open their mouths

Axolotls at Vancouver Aquarium. Photo by ZeWrestler.

Biology

Evolving legs from fins was surprisingly simple, new study finds

After printing, the 4D orchid is immersed in water to activate its shape transformation.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Biology

4D-printed structure changes shape when placed in water

These ancient lizards trapped in amber will help researchers patch up the incomplete fossil records. Image: David Grimaldi

Biology

Oldest chameleon-like lizard found trapped in 100 million-years-old amber

seals pup bond

Animals

Oxytocin seals bond between mother and child

March 4, 2016 - Updated on December 22, 2022

Biology

Oldest fungus fossil set the stage for life on land 440 million years ago

March 4, 2016 - Updated on November 16, 2020

A male brine shrimp. Photo by djpmapleferryman.

Biology

Not all parasites are bad: brine shrimp aided by parasites to cope with rough environment

The Japanese frog is one of the few species resistant to Bd. But individuals are still becoming infected.
Image credits to wikimedia user Alpsdake

Animals

Fungus turns frogs into sex zombies, but then kills off whole species

March 3, 2016 - Updated on March 4, 2016

American alligator, photo by Hans Stieglitz.

Animals

Breeding birds use alligators to protect nests from egg-eaters

The biochip is like a busy city. Image: PNAS

Biology

Book-sized biological supercomputer is powered by ATP

March 3, 2016 - Updated on March 4, 2016

The body and wings of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens have evolved in a way that lets the insect glide extraordinary distances on weather currents. Photo: Greg Lasley

Biology

A small dragonfly is found to be the world’s longest-distance flyer

raccoon

Animals

Fear of predators itself is enough to destabilize an ecosystem

March 1, 2016 - Updated on November 16, 2020

HIV infected cell (virus in yellow.)
Image credits go to flikr used NIAID

Biology

Genetic-scissor enzyme eliminates HIV completely in mice trials

February 26, 2016

Miro is a trained truffle dog that belongs to Simon Egli, a co-author of the Biogeosciences paper based at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. He's pictured here with a Burgundy truffle he found in Switzerland.
CREDIT
Simon Egli, WSL

Biology

Truffles found to be surprisingly resistant to radioactivity

February 25, 2016 - Updated on February 17, 2023

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