biology

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Meet the Winner of the Odile Bain Memorial Prize 2022

Jairo Alfonso Mendoza Roldan The Odile Bain Memorial Prize (OBMP) recognizes early career scientists who have made significant contributions to the

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Enlarge / A 3D paleoreconstruction of a sauropod dinosaur has revealed that the hind feet had a soft tissue pad beneath the "heel,"

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The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Bacteria use a variety of defense strategies to fight off

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The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Bacteria use a variety of defense strategies to fight off

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Symbiotic relationships between legumes and the bacteria that grow in their roots are critical for plant survival. Without those bacteria, the plants

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Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson/T. Clements et al.) Sometimes science can be a messy endeavor—not to mention "disgusting and smelly."

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Male anopheline mosquitoes are known to have evolved a mechanism to prevent rival males from mating with the female they have inseminated, the

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Most of us perform at least a little bit of due diligence to maintain our health. We watch what we eat, we exercise, we see a doctor once a year, and

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With global temperatures likely to rise significantly over the coming decades and the Australian workplace still reeling from the pandemic, there has

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This piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s high tropical Andes,

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Without Henrietta Lacks, we would not have HeLa cells – the first ‘immortal’ human cell line. These cells were ‘immortal’ in the sense that

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Newton rightly decried that science progresses by standing on the shoulders of giants. But his often-quoted statement applies even more broadly than

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Enlarge / The boat trip went through an area of milky sea south of the lights of an island. (credit: Steven Miller, Leon Schommer, and Naomi

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Turner was the first scientist to prove certain insects could remember, learn and feel. Courtesy of Charles I. Abramson, CC BY-ND by Edward D.

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Bednets in a pediatric ICU unit. Wikimedia Dengue, Zika, and other flaviviruses transmitted by mosquitoes in the Aedes genera are a major public