Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectrometry instead of DNA tags. "We wanted to ...

Scientists have found a new native bee that they’ve dubbed the Lucifer bee. Megachile Lucifer was found by a researcher as ...

Project to assign DNA barcodes to all 49,000 known species across Netherlands to help scientists monitor biodiversity - ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level. Somewhere between the redwoods and the Salton Sea live perhaps 60,000, ...

Scientists have discovered three live-bearing toad species in Tanzania that skip the tadpole stage and gave birth to fully ...

Scientists discover a new species of spiny dragon millipede, Desmoxytes group, found exclusively in damp caves and with ...

A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

The newly-discovered bee species belongs to the genus Megachile and is a visitor to a critically endangered flowering plant ...