When birds are chirping, humans may feel a little more at ease. But some bird vocalizations seem to strike a particularly ...

VermontBiz Maya Suarez spends any spare time she has between her two majors, biology and math, in the Molecular Biology research laboratory on Vermont State University’s Johnson campus, where she is ...

For many autistic children, everyday sensations such as the feel of scratchy fabric or a loud car alarm can be intensely distressing. Known as sensory over-responsivity, this common symptom can affect ...

Researchers at National Jewish Health have identified a key way estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) helps protect the right side of ...

New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century ...

What these turtles do is considerably more complex than the phrase “breathing through their rear ends” suggests. They move ...

Cambridge scientists have shown that girls and boys show differences in what they pay attention to, even at birth.

Scientists have identified a new gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands, revealing four distinct species and raising fresh concerns over climate change.

Researchers stumbled onto something unexpected lurking inside ordinary spider webs, and it is quietly changing how scientists track wildlife without ever setting eyes on a single animal.

The study, led by Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca and published in Nature on Sep 16, offers a way to investigate human brain development and injury through experiments ...

Report cites ’food stress’ from menhaden scarcity but avoids pointing fingers Osprey breeding continues to falter around the Chesapeake Bay, a new survey has found, with the meager hatching and ...

Scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die, and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions.