When lakes freeze solid in winter, it may seem impossible for aquatic life to survive but turtles have remarkable adaptations that help them endure extreme cold. Instead of dying or escaping, many ...

A computational study shows for the first time how different parts of the human airway experience levels of pressure and ...

Respiration is a chemical reaction that happens in all living cells, including plant cells and animal cells. It is the way that energy is released from glucose so that all the other chemical processes ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Trump says he doesn't know if he backs constitutional due process rights in new interview President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the ...

The central theme of this Review is how the respiratory immune system maintains a strong defence against incoming pathogens, while avoiding the pathogenic consequences of inappropriate responses to ...

Nascimur uno modo, multis morimu ('in one way we are born, in many ways we die'), and there is probably no single way to age. Indeed, so far there is no single accepted explanation or mechanism of ...