Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge criticised Andhra Pradesh's Nara Lokesh for pitching Anantapur as an alternative IT hub to Bengaluru. Kharge labelled it "desperate scavenging," asserting ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where embryos develop from unfertilized eggs, has been observed in captive ...

The world’s largest organism isn’t a blue whale. It is a colony of aspen trees in Utah’s Fishlake National Park. Scientists discovered through DNA testing that the 47,000 trees that make up this stand ...

In honor of Women’s Health Month, reproductive health researcher and Assistant Professor Scott Barnett from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology shares the sobering reality of the rising ...

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Portable air purifiers are good for helping air out your home, reducing or increasing humidity, limiting access to air pollution, and generally keeping your home air clean. However, you need to get ...

Nature is full of fascinating adaptations. Asexual reproduction—the ability to reproduce without a mate––is one of them. This process involves a single parent organism producing genetically identical ...

Everything in life is about sex and money. And now that I have your attention, let me explain. That phrase was one that I often used when presenting key concepts to my biology and marine science ...

A growing body of research suggests humans owe an evolutionary debt to Asgard archaea, a group of single-celled organisms discovered in hydrothermal vents in 2015. "The first one was found in this ...

Snakes, found on all continents except Antarctica, play vital roles in ecosystems. With over 3,000 species, they exhibit unique mating behaviors such as forming mating balls. Crossbreeding is possible ...

I’m walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there’s a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly ...