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It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that make it harder to ignore the fact that these animals have minds, says Marta Halina

Viruses are key actors of ecosystems and have major impacts on global biogeochemical cycles. Prophages deserve particular attention as they are ubiquitous in bacterial genomes and can enter a lytic cycle when triggered by environmental conditions. ...

Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 5...

PhD Project - EastBio: A host-directed approach to identify novel therapeutic targets of infectious reproductive diseases at Moredun Research Institute, listed on FindAPhD.com

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Feeding pigeons is common in Indian cities but is now controversial due to rising numbers and health risks.

The anti-ageing effect was even greater when combined with vitamin D and exercise.

A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.

The prevalence and immune response to coinfection by avian haemosporidians in wild Eurasian blackbirds Turdus merula

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.