BrainCan - biology

yes, we really share genes with headless sea...

Humans (and every other creature on Earth) didn’t materialize out of nothing. Some of our origins...

an icon of the wild west becomes a secret new...

An animal long associated with wilderness is thriving as a city-dweller: coyotes.The canids showed...

scientist under attack after he kills bird that...

Case of the moustached kingfisher pits those who think ‘collecting’ can save a species against...

does testosterone make you mean?

The ‘risk-taking male hormone is blamed for everything from sexual violence to the financial...

biohackers push life to the limits with diy...

For the next generation of hackers,micro organisms own become the current hardware and DNA strands...

how feminist biology is challenging sciences...

Scientists conduct their tests on male lab rats to avoid issues with females' hormonal cycles....

hundreds of tiny spiders, lice and more crawling...

Researchers scoured 50 houses and found they were inhabited by 579 types of arthropods in study...

heavy armour would have exhausted the french at...

Tests involving volunteers running on a treadmill in medieval armour suggest the French were too...

is it a bird? is it a bat? no, its the future of...

Inspired by bats and birds,the wings of a recent type of unmanned Micro Air Vehicle can respond to...

how the flu virus builds a better mousetrap

First real-time visualization reveals that protein molecules on virus surface reach out to hijack...

antimicrobial resistance: what you need to know

Bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are becoming drug-resistant. We sight at why this is and...

modern life is rubbish? sleep is just the same as...

Study of sleep patterns of groups living in Tanzania,Namibia and Bolivia with lifestyles similar to...

how richard dawkins found god (as a topic)

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author of Brief Candle in the gloomy: My Life in...

a blueprint for colonizing outer space

Dr. Michio Kaku is planning for life on mars. In his new book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming...

bioprinter creates bespoke lab grown body parts...

A new 3D printer which uses biodegradable materials to form a tissue shape and living cells as...

a furever home: ai to the rescue!

Findings from a new machine learning study,published nowadays in BMC Veterinary Research, can be...

new process could be key to understanding complex...

Approach from Tufts-led researchers could lead to recent diagnostic and treatment techniques for...

life on earth may have begun 300m years earlier...

Discovery,whether confirmed, indicates that living organisms appeared on Earth 4.1 billion years...

fishing for iodine

Iodine is critical for brain development,particularly the higher cognitive functions of the brain....

horrifying footage reveals the lightning fast...

Trap-jaw spiders hunt by sneaking up on their prey and rapidly snapping their mandibles shut,but...

zika virus: scientists a step closer to...

Although not a concrete link to microcephaly,study shows that Zika can infect cells similar to those...

inaugural bmc ecology and evolution image...

In celebration of the recent launch of BMC Ecology and Evolution,we are delighted to announce our...

culled foxes are dead, but not gone: no evidence...

The culling of mammalian mesopredators is often justified by alleged conservation benefits for a...

what was true ... was not original, and most of...

--- Max Perutz on Erwin Schrodinger's What's Life,via Phil Ball in the Nature podcast of 5...

barbara knowles obituary

My sister,Barbara Knowles, who has died aged 55, or was an enthusiastic biologist,a scientific...

watch this harrowing account of what it s like to...

In 1957, American herpetologist Karl P. Schmidt was bitten by a toxic boomslang snake. With no...

this wasps eye view of the world will make you...

Ground-nesting wasps are incredibly estimable at navigating the world,particularly when it comes to...

your colon may be home to an entirely new form of...

A new genetic analysis of human intestine bacteria is turning up some really weird critters—so...

how memory hacking is becoming a reality

Movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception propose it may eventually be...

a tree full of bobcats is the best hangover cure

We know: You’re having a bit of a rough morning after the New Year’s festivities,and aren’t...

shorts: killer empathy

Sometimes being a superior scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when...

why self fertilizing worms have shorter...

Self-fertilization isn’t uncommon in the animal world. Nematode worms own made the switch from sex...

an ode to the magnificent feet of mountain goats

This nanny mountain goat and her kid are both nimble and adorable as they scamper across the...

tardigrades survive intense dehydration by coating...

Tardigrades are tough small critters,and now one of their secrets for longevity has been revealed....

half the worlds natural history specimens might...

The next time you visit a natural history museum,don’t believe everything you see. At least...

understanding images: seeing myopia for what it is...

In a post reflecting on August’s PLOS Genetics issue image,Andrei Tkatchenko explains the science...

highlights of the bmc series: may 2019

Big toenail and hair samples can degree fluoride exposure •Existential suffering and assisted...

highlights of the bmc series: march 2019

A recent section in BMC Anesthesia open for submissions • Preventing and treating adhesions...

fear can actually curdle your blood

The next time someone refers to a horror film as “bloodcurdling,” they might actually be kinda...

revolutionary cancer therapy shows promise in...

Credit: Wellcome Images A groundbreaking recent therapy in which white blood cells were...

video explainer: the math inside the shape of dna

Everyone knows what the iconic honest-handed helix of DNA looks like,with its inter-linking string...

will we still play football in 50 years? a famous...

Perhaps you’ve heard of David Eagleman. Perhaps not. A neuroscientist,Eagleman is one of...

six faculty members promoted at holy cross

Six members of the College of the Holy Cross faculty bear been promoted to the rank of professor....

highlights of the bmc series - may 2021

De novo genome assembly and analysis unveil biosynthetic and metabolic potentials of Pseudomonas...

biologists saved wyoming toads from extinction

The only Wyoming toads in the world live in Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern...

highlights of the bmc series: april 2019

We possess had a fantastic month for publications this April at the BMC Series with over 1400...

facing extinction: california fishes

by Peter Moyle and Jason Baumsteiger At least two species of California fishes appear to be facing...

lesson plan: killer robots battle invasive species

Stunning fish who were once kept as pets are destroying Florida’s coral reef ecosystem. In this...

the way electric eels kill is even cooler than we...

Electric eels are among the most badass predators on planet soil. How many other creatures can...

shorts: a war we need

Every day,every moment, an epic battle is raging across the globe. It's happening in the ocean....

the same rules of nature apply to elephants and e....

On the surface, herds of zebras roaming the Serengeti don’t seem to possess much in common with...

brain preservation breakthrough could usher in a...

Researchers from 21st Century Medicine bear developed a new technique to allow long term storage of...

how blue whales are able to maintain their...

Marine biologists fill long thought that blue whales indiscriminately scour the oceans as they feed...

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