“Despite the evidence for frequent outcrossing, derived from the sequences of yeast genomes, no one knew before where outcrossing could take place,” said study coauthor Duccio Cavalieri, an associate ...

If you've ever bitten into a fresh fig, you've tasted the delicious result of one of nature's most extraordinary and longstanding partnerships. But the figs in your local grocery store only tell a ...

Removal of an offender's hand, tongue or ear: punishments described in Babylon's Hammurabi Code, depended on the nature of the crime. Published in 1771 B.C., the code set the first formal standards ...

Guest columnist Christine Barnett is wildlife program specialist at the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center. Where are all the good men? For some species of bees and wasps in Ohio, the answer is “there ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1981), pp. 65-66 (2 pages) Interference competition directed at soldier beetles, Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus, by four aggressive wasp species ...