Posted: December 27, 2025 | Last updated: December 27, 2025 The unexpected winner of rising American tariffs is Mexico Press ...

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialise to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and signals that drive this ...

You may never have wondered why you have five fingers at the end of each arm (or why you have fingers at all, for that matter) but the answer is surprisingly interesting and a little cheeky. A recent ...

Around 380 million years ago, in the shallow seas of the Devonian Period, this fish was swimming around minding its own business. Little did it know that part of its genetic code would one day help ...

Pycnogonum litorale, adult female feeding on a sea anemone. Credit: Georg Brenneis In a scientific first, researchers have mapped the sea spider’s entire genome in high resolution, uncovering a ...

Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) have a very strange body shape. They’re tiny marine animals with super skinny trunks and legs so long that some of their organs stretch into them! Their belly is so reduced ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. The manuscript of He et al. compares the roles of Hox/Gbx genes ...

Colorized microscopic views of the different structures of the small (left) and large (right) intestine in a developing chick. Image: Hasreet Gill At a glance: Pair of studies in chick embryos ...