The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country's bid for self-reliance.
Randomness favours the worm becoming free because its head can move in many ways that will help to propel it forwards, but only one that would push it backwards. Because of the intrinsically random ...
The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.
Activity levels and daytime sleepiness can be combined into a ‘behavioural clock’ that predicts whether a fish will have a short life or a long one.
Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.
Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.