When it comes to female red squirrels, it seems any male will do

Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.

Identifying Canadian Freshwater Fish Through DNA Barcodes

New research by Canadian scientists brings some good news for those interested in the conservation of a number of highly endangered species of Canadian fish.

Protecting Muscles Of Astronauts

As astronaut Garrett Reisman adjusts to Earth's gravity after three months in space, a University of Kentucky physiologist is continuing his tests on a 50-year-old drug used for liver treatments...

Steroids In Female Mouse Urine Light Up Nose Nerves Of Male Mice

A group of steroids found in female mouse urine goes straight to the male mouse's head. Researchers found the compounds activate nerve cells in the male mouse's nose with unprecedented...

Birds communicate reproductive success in song

Some migratory songbirds figure out the best place to live by eavesdropping on the singing of others that successfully have had baby birds – a communication and behavioral trait so...

Unlocking genome of world's worst insect pest

The Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, said – at the BIO 2008 International Convention in San Diego, California – that the team...

Hairy-nosed otter gets a home, but a wife?

Worm-like animal sheds light on evolution

SAN DIEGO, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. biologists say they have found the genome of a worm-like marine animal is providing new information about human evolution.

University researchers promote new animal recognition technology

Two entrepreneurial researchers from The University of Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland, have taken their collaborative research further along the commercialisation pathway with their appearance tonight on the...

Male Homosexuality Can Be Explained Through A Specific Model Of Darwinian Evolution, Study Shows

An Italian research team found that the evolutionary origin and maintenance of male homosexuality in human populations could be explained by a model based around the idea of sexually antagonistic...

It's The Way You Say It: How Using The Right Words Can Cut Environmental Conflicts

Ecologists have developed a new "tool" that could in future help prevent costly and acrimonious environmental conflicts such as campaigns against culling problem populations of charismatic animals and arguments over...

California's wildflowers are disappearing, new book by UCR ecologist cautions

Richard Minnich says policies and measures are needed to preserve state's flower heritage At least since the late 18th century, invasive plant species introduced by humans have devastated California's...

Japan ramps up patent effort to keep iPS lead

United States in race to commercialize pluripotent stem cells.

Lab disinfectant harms mouse fertility

cage-cleaning chemicals cause birth defects and fertility problems in mice.

Efforts To Revegetate Mount Lofty Ranges In Australia To Halt Loss Of Species

One of Australia's leading environmentalists will spearhead a world-class project to help revegetate the Mount Lofty Ranges, to stave off the effects of climate change and halt the loss of...

New bee checklist lets scientists link important information about all bee species

In time for National Pollinator Week, June 22 through June 28, biologists have completed an online effort to compile a world checklist of bees. They have identified nearly 19,500 bee...

Female chimpanzees play a subtle mating game

They vary the volume of their calls during sex to maximise the survival chances of their offspring, research suggests

Feature: Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools

A new X-ray tool could help biologists shed light on the body’s innermost workings, providing details that could have enormous value to chemists designing drugs, such as new antibiotics to...

Chimps Not So Selfish: Comforting Behavior May Well Be Expression of Empathy

Compared to their sex-mad, peace-loving bonobo counterparts, chimpanzees are often seen as a scheming, war-mongering, and selfish species. As both apes are allegedly our closest relatives, together they are often...

Unraveling Bacteria Communication Pathways

Researchers have figured out how bacteria ensure that they respond correctly to hundreds of incoming signals from their environment. The researchers also successfully rewired the cellular communications pathways that control...

Scientists ID species' ecological fates

ADELAIDE, Australia, June 18 (UPI) -- An Australian scientist has led a unique ecological study he says should help identify species prone to extinction or those likely to...

Carbon Nanotubes Compromise the Functions of Certain Protozoa, Study Shows

A new study by researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, hints that carbon nanotubes may be toxic to microorganisms. When cultures of a certain key protozoan, a...

Wyeth Shares Rise on Promising Study of Alzheimer’s Drug

The drug maker said that an investigational product for treating Alzheimer’s improved cognitive functioning in patients who did not carry a genetic variation called ApoE4.

Playtime kills young chimps

Social contact leads to disease and death for Ivory Coast apes.

Millions of cicadas screech a serenade

As 17-year periodic cicadas scratch and buzz in 13 states, entomologists remind us that brash noise is really an insect love song.

Find points to high status of castle

Norman equivalent of Buckingham Palace balcony discovered in Dorset

If You Can't Take the Height, Get Off the Mountain

Genetic analysis sheds light on why some groups adjust better to high altitudes than others

Lab identifies new role for factor critical to transcription

The Stowers Institute's Shilatifard Lab has identified a new role for the elongation factor ELL in gene transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) — the enzyme that synthesizes...