Your stress levels may be another thing you can blame on your mother. Scientists investigating pregnancies in four generations of rats show that inherited epigenetic effects of stress could…

Southern California is aghast that cities are now enforcing water usage cutbacks during the ongoing drought - it's because during the mandatory restrictions, while the farming regions of central…

Slippery as an eel may be a popular phrase but it turns out they are a lot easier to catch when marine vessels make noise nearby. In a Global Change Biology paper, researchers from the Universities…

Mutations in a gene named CTR9 gene that helps regulate when genes are switched on and off in cells have been found to cause rare cases of Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer occurring in…

Europe is so far ahead of the US in its thinking on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance that we should all be ashamed. For the last 15 years, Europe has led the way on the regulatory front making…

The 21st century will be the century of the 'smart home', where your home and your portable technology all interact seamlessly with one another. In the 21st century, smart homes won't be just…

Juvenile loggerhead turtles don't just passively drift through life, they swim into oncoming ocean currents, according to a new study. After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they…

Lanternsharks produce and perceive bioluminescent light in order to communicate, find prey, and camouflage themselves against predators in the mesopelagic twilight zone. The mesopelagic twilight…

Parasite is colloquially a bad word but about half of all known species are parasites and biologists have long hypothesized that the strategy of leeching off other organisms is a major driver of…

Brief, acute psychological stress promoted healing in mouse models of three different types of skin irritations, according to a study the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.  The…