In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

In northeastern Bangladesh, the red narrow-mouthed frog (Microhyla rubra) is defying the monsoon, breeding in winter streams. It is a surprising twist that challenges assumptions about amphibian life ...

Globally, around 11% to 13% of women live with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder that affects the ...

How is the same process responsible for genetic recombination and diversity also the cause of aneuploidy? Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers' ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. In plants, the MMC represents the precursor of the female ...

All animals need to make copies of themselves, or they wouldn't exist anymore. It's what life's all about. Of course they can't just put themselves into a photocopier. Although some very simple kinds ...