About two dozen Corvallis middle-schoolers stood in a circle to form a “cell” on Thursday afternoon, with different students ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

A horse's signature whinny comes from a combination of whistling and singing.

This slug does something animals are not supposed to do. It steals chloroplasts from algae and uses them to perform photosynthesis - turning sunlight into energy inside its own body. This blurs the ...

The Computational Cell Biology, Anatomy and Pathology PhD program is a unique connector between the basic and clinical sciences. New technology has enabled tools for examination of biological ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to ...

Many fish appear to hang effortlessly in the water while they wait for prey, defend a nest or pause between bursts of activity. But our research shows that this quiet stillness is anything but ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition, and ...

Recent progress in high-throughput sequencing has uncovered an astounding landscape of small RNAs in eukaryotic cells. Various small RNAs of distinctive characteristics have been found and can be ...

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Chameleons can rocket their tongues at prey in a blur, frogs can slam sticky tongues onto insects with forces several times their own body weight, and hummingbirds seem to sip nectar with impossible ...