News from biology

Scientists reveal the reason why some farts smell worse than others

Global species loss: Biodiversity study highlights the devastating human impact

American English includes one of the rarest sounds on Earth, but we use it all the time

New insight into factors associated with a common disease among dogs and humans

Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory

How do coconuts get their water?

Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

Giving up on photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows some marine diatoms to live on a seaweed diet

New agent inhibits Staphylococcus aureus toxin—giving hope to pneumonia patients

Mysterious falcon decline: American Kestrel juveniles thrive amid population drop

Food and fuel that farms itself: Genome sequences of five duckweed species reveal basis for unique plant traits

A starting signal for cell division: Molecular switch ensures that cells divide at the right time

Female mosquito salivary glands could unlock key to malaria transmission

Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia's orange-bellied parrot from extinction

Human evolution rewritten: A lost human population may have supercharged our brains-and given us 20% of our DNA

New study links lower proportions of certain sleep stages to brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease

Common anticancer drugs may offer new hope to PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome patients

Machine learning model to predict virus reservoirs

Biomolecules reveal composition of lake phytoplankton community