There are all kinds of tails in the world. You might be pretty comfortable understanding the purpose of some of these tails, but even the most common animal tails might surprise you. This is the story ...

Researchers have discovered how diverse forms of life are able to use the same cellular machinery for DNA transcription. It might seem as though humans have little in common with the lowly yeast cell.

To escape predators, geckos can detach their tails and then quickly scramble away, sometimes racing across smooth surfaces that are vertical or even inverted. A new tail grows back within a few months ...

Scientists at the University of York have shown that a sperm tail utilises interconnected elastic springs to transmit mechanical information to distant parts of the tail, helping it to bend and ...