Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in...
Plants have evolved fiendishly complicated metabolic networks. For years, scientists focused on how plants make secondary metabolites, the compounds that...
Not all bacteria are created equal. Most are single-celled and tiny, a few ten-thousandths of a centimeter long. But bacteria...
Seabirds in the Pacific Ocean are eating plastic and feeding it to their chicks. But we know precious little about...
The development of antibiotics to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria, especially those that infect the airways, has been increasingly tricky, and some...
An international team of scientists led by geneticists and disease biologists from the University of Oxford and LMU Munich have...
Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History led a new analysis that sheds light on the ancestry and...
Compound leaves, which are composed of multiple independent units called leaflets, show a wide diversity of patterning, ranging from trifoliolate,...
Using optogenetics, Würzburg researchers have detected a new acid sensor in plant cells that addresses a cell-internal calcium store. The...
A research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has outlined the high-resolution structure of a...
Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague...
Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes, the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes that contain the majority of our...
