For centuries, eels have kept one of nature’s most stubborn secrets. Scientists have chased answers through ancient folklore, dead ends in early experiments, and decades of missing evidence. Even with ...

An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honeybees. Bees need to eat ...

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Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

Sharks play a critical role in maintaining the balance of ocean ecosystems. Whether they’re top predators or mesopredators, their presence helps regulate populations of prey species and support the ...

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Birds do it, a few bees get to do it – but how did sexual reproduction evolve in the first place? An evolutionary model suggests that it could have started as a way for two cells to pool their ...

Third-party reproduction—using donor sperm, donor eggs, or surrogates to conceive—is often met with mixed emotions and discomfort. Although these methods help individuals and couples build families, ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

FEW people perhaps fully realise how abundantly the mosses are provided with modes of vegetative reproduction, even although they may be fully cognisant of the fact that the protonema—the precursor of ...

Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in response to predators in the area in order to survive, according to new research. Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in ...