A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

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The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying corals with abundant food and enabling them to build extensive shallow-water ...

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Researchers in Barcelona conducted experiments with four zoo giraffes that indicate the animals might be capable of basic math.

A 1976 experiment with Trinidadian guppies revealed evolution's rapid pace. When moved from predator-rich streams to calmer ...

Preparing skeletal specimens for display in museums or for forensic studies requires the bones to be thoroughly cleaned to ...

Kashmir farmers are shifting from apple orchards to lavender farming for better profits, lower costs and new business opportunities backed by the Aroma Mission.

Strutting and fluttering around cities, pigeons have adapted to an ever-shifting environment. But their environment isn’t the ...

A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal states, hinting that they ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...