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From gliding to farting, snakes have bizarre superpowers. Celebrate National Snake Day with these shocking behaviors.
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Should You Be Having More Babies?

It’s time for everyone to engage in the depopulation debate, says Dean Spears, a co-author of After the Spike.
In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...
Parthenogenesis -- a natural form of asexual reproduction -- is something that's common amongst plant species, insects, amphibians and many other life forms. Meaning "virgin creation" in Greek, it ...
The banana might be the most artificial fruit in the world. The domestic banana that we eat is an asexual clone, one that results from the sedate, artificial act of vegetative propagation. How the ...
As the days grow shorter, many animals prepare for the approaching winter by suspending reproduction. Insects, for example, ...
New research from Rockefeller University reveals how both genes and body size influence whether an ant becomes a queen or a worker.
Nature is marked not only by struggles for survival, but also by remarkable feats of cooperation. From microbes to insects to humans, organisms work together in a variety of ways to gather and share ...
For the first time, scientists have used two sperm cells to create viable mice offspring that have gone on to reproduce healthy offspring of their own.⁣ ...
Cell biology articles from across Nature Portfolio Atom RSS Feed Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells.
Are you fascinated by how the cell operates in living organisms? Are you curious how the adult cell functions? Cell biology integrates principles from many disciplines, including chemistry, physics, ...