Hitting the bull's-eye

A view to a kill

Accurate descriptions of cell demise offer treatments for diseases such as cancer

Asian plentitude

Eastern Asia enjoys greater plant diversity due to climate change and habitat variety

Group defence

Diverse blood types evolved to provide immunity against infections

Phenotype factors

Nature, nurture and noise

Raining frogs

Will the deluge end?

Appearances are deceptive

Fitting in

Fish evolved to adapt to their swimming environments  

China loses its patent

Human’s best friend originated from a wolf in West Asia  

Do you really choose what you eat – or do your gut microbes decide for you?

A new study with fruit flies suggests that we may have less free will when it comes to choosing what we eat than we like to think

What is love? Here's the science ...

We think we know when we feel it – but here's what is really going on in our brains and bodies

Sunscreen or camouflage? Why so many animals have dark backs and pale bellies

It is one of the most controversial questions in nature. Now a group of British researchers have shed light on the answer

Down to the bones

Mercilessly lethal osteoporosis - the withering of a body's bone mass - may finally have met its match

Jump, they say

Why do some gene fragments jump around from one place to another? Russians believe they have the answer

Ouch, it is a mutation

Do headaches, stomach upsets and several other minor ailments have their roots in the speed of genetic mutations?

NCCS scientists find new microbial species in Sambhar lake

Archaea among most primitive life forms, one of 3 main domains of life

Ant’s invasion plan decoded

The fire ant first went to the US, then conquered the world

How cells differentiate

Cancer solutions

Stopping blood supply to tumours appears to be a potent way to tackle cancer

Genome research

Creating algae in the dark

Single mothers

Evolution doesn't favour sexual reproduction

United colours of humanity

Racial discrimination is a product of convictions and can be easily eradicated

Elephantine difference

At the genetic level

Look out

Two viruses from the infamous retrovirus family found