18 in the peer-reviewed journal Biology Letters. Researchers previously learned the lizards were able to create air bubbles — the first vertebrates known to use the technique — in 2021, but Swierk’s ...

Scripps Research scientists have created a method using four-nucleotide codons to incorporate non-canonical amino acids into ...

Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But ...

Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But researchers trying to engineer biologic molecules with new functions have long felt ...

Some uniquely talented dogs accumulate a vocabulary of hundreds of toy names. How do they do it? Young children acquire a large vocabulary because, in addition to quickly learning words, they also ...

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In their study, published in the journal Biology Letters, ... A recent study, published in Biology Letters, challenges the long-held notion that domestication is the primary driver of reduced ...

The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and biochemistry require that: No biology or biochemistry course with a grade below C- be used as a prerequisite for a more advanced ...

For one smell, panellists chose the words ‘sharp, sweet ... Despite the pre-eminence of biology, many scientists dream of a time when a digital smell sensor will rival those for other senses.

Science's war against the super-small and, sometimes, super-deadly bacteria that have evolved to resist destruction by antibiotics may have just enlisted new, unlikely allies: invertebrate ...

I completely agree with Sandie Peleg and Julius Dhanu (Traveller Letters, August 10) on the sub-standard process for incoming travellers to Australia. We arrived at Sydney Airport after a nine-day ...

From aquabob to zawn, writer Robert Macfarlane's collection of unusual, achingly poetic words for nature creates a lexicon we all can learn from. Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert ...