Viruses are the most prevalent biological entities in the world’s oceans and play essential roles in its ecological and biogeochemical...
A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for...
Scientists have characterized the folding of the cerebellar cortex using data from a sample of 56 mammalian species, allowing them...
Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the...
They look like storm clouds that could fit on the head of a pin: Organoids are three-dimensional cell cultures that...
A recent study has found some of the oldest animals in the world living in a place you wouldn’t expect:...
The first widescale assessment of methylmercury in adult amphibians in the U.S. to date shows that in amphibians, this toxic...
Increasing organic carbon in soils has been promoted as a way to help combat climate change while also improving soil...
Insects have an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, but our understanding of how human activities affect their...
Plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so...
The cells in our body continuously keep each other informed. They do this by exchanging, among other things, virus-like vesicles....
Researchers have discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil,...
