Biology News

Paris - Zebras have stripes to deter the tsetse and other blood-sucking flies, according to a fresh bid to settle a debate that has raged among biologists for over 140 years.

Washington - The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, millions more than previously estimated, US researchers said Thursday.For decades, scientists accepted that humans could detect only 10,000 scents, putting the sense of smell well be...

Washington - The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, millions more than previously estimated, US researchers said Thursday.For decades, scientists accepted that humans could detect only 10,000 scents, putting the sense of smell well be...

A biological research scientist at Simon Fraser University has conducted an insightful study suggesting that the entire Animal Kingdom seems to benefit when helpful dads stick around.

Berkeley - Biologists based in California this week announced the discovery of four new species of legless lizards. Nothing unusual about that, you might think. But the discovery wasn't made thousands of miles away. Quite the contrary.

Life may well not exist in outer space, however some scientists argue that life-triggering phosphorus was carried to Earth on meteorites.

Can kidneys be recycled? A new science paper suggests that kidneys could be put to use as raw material for engineering new kidneys.

Scientists have made the link between genetics and homosexuality. Can this finally be the validation that the LGBT community has been waiting for?

As the conversation about deextinction heats up, many people are asking themselves if it's even possible, and if so, should mankind be 'playing God'.

Rome - Italian Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini died Sunday at her home in Rome at the age of 103, according to a statement from Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno. Mr. Alemanno called her death a great loss "for all of humanity."