The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...

Human Reproduction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human reproduction, including reproductive physiology and pathology, endocrinology, andrology, gonad function, ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

The results obtained from an experiment need to be analysed to understand the findings. Using the data collected, we can identify relationships between the independent and dependent variables and ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools and ...

Photis Gaitanos' rough fingers adroitly untangle the venomous spikes of a lionfish from a net, throwing the exotic-looking creature into an ice-filled rubber bin along with other fish from the day's ...

Russia says damaged launch pad crucial to its space programme will be fixed by February Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that work was underway to repair a damaged launch pad at the Baikonur ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the atomic age ...