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Transverse tubules (T-tubules) play a significant role in muscle contraction. However, the underlying mechanism of their ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover.

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Bioprinting is rapidly moving from research labs into commercial reality, and it is reshaping how the pharmaceutical and ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

Animal intelligence takes many forms and often defies human expectations. Some species solve problems, communicate complex ...

Dogs react to snow in strikingly different ways, from huskies that thrive in winter to small breeds that shiver at the first ...

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.