Which, as Knapp and her colleagues have found in a new study, appears to be the case for the world’s third-most important ...

A recent YouTube video from birder Benn Jordan explains how a songbird retained and reproduced information from a PNG image file, theoretically enabling data transfers reaching ...

Tomatoes and potato-like plants called Etuberosums share a common ancestor from 14 million years ago. What came first, the potato or the tomato? A new genetics study says the answer is that juicy, ...

Those researchers have since been vindicated, because the current population is over 500 birds, with more than 300 flying free in California, Arizona and Mexico. Because scientists had contact ...

But that shouldn't be a big problem for animals like the pit viper — which can reproduce through parthenogenesis in the wild — because there are plenty of males for females to mate with.

Organisms that reproduce asexually have a one-to-one reproductive ratio – a lone organism can replace itself. Compare that with the sexual model: Two individuals provide half the genome for a ...

Life finds a way, and the same goes for even robots, according to a group of scientists who say the first living robotic life forms can reproduce. In January 2020, a team of scientists from the ...

This week, meet the curious living robots that can reproduce, spy wildlife at its best, experience an eight-hour year on an exoplanet, learn why it’s raining in one of the coldest places on ...

TOKYO—Japan’s Riken research institute said Friday that efforts to reproduce results of what was once billed as a groundbreaking method of creating stem cells have failed, likely bringing to a ...