Mesopelagic fishes like lantern fishes (Myctophidae) and cyclothonids (Gonostomatidae) live in the twilight zone of the ocean, between 200 and 1,000 meters deep.  With a stock estimated…

Policy makers know to hit biology where it counts; in the wallet. Rural farmers in Mexico have seen honey shipments to Germany rejected because of genetically modified organism (GMO) soybean…

The world's oceans contain algae that produce certain chemicals that can accumulate in seafood and are known to cause brain damage. This natural neurotoxin, domoic acid, is a very stable and heat…

It's cold and snowy just about everywhere except where you expect it. Ice in northern Alaska’s lakes during winter months is on the decline, as shown by twenty years of satellite radar imagery…

We have a biological clock related to sleep cycles and a new paper says we have weight loss cycles related to behavior; people are going to gain weight on the weekend so if they lose more during the…

For the past eight years, the Amazon rain forest has gotten greener as the weather seemingly got hotter and drier each year from June to October.  Limited rainfall didn't prevent thriving…

Evolutionary biology sounds exciting - there wouldn't be any movies on the SyFy Channel without Gatoroids and Sharknados and other feats of life science run amok - but in reality you are going to…

Why do men and women have different heights? Why do people have different predispositions to BMI, blood pressure and lipid levels? Chromosome X is one of the two sex-determining chromosomes and …

How are accurate are the world's most advanced weather forecasting models? They perform okay, at least when it comes to predicting the very near future.  Two University of Iowa researchers,…

United States dominance in science and technology declined  during the last decade as several Asian nations rapidly increased their innovation capacities. According to a new report, The 2014…