One way cells can control the activities of their genes is by adding small chemical modifications to the DNA that...
Researchers led by members of Oxford University’s Department of Biology have found rare colonies of the wild ancestors of common...
On a bright moonlit night, a team of scientists and volunteers head out to a protected beach along the Delaware...
University of California, Irvine-led researchers have discovered that a signaling molecule called SCUBE3 potently stimulates hair growth and may offer...
Researchers at North Carolina State University show that an important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates certain chemical processes that...
Aquilaria sinensis (family Thymelaeaceae) is the principal source of Chinese agarwood. It is a vulnerable evergreen tree native to lowland...
Two levels underground, Chicago’s Field Museum has a secret bunker. The sub-basement Collections Resource Center houses millions of biological specimens...
On a drizzly day in July 1920, a Colorado scientist named Junius Henderson was hiking around the Dakota Hogback, a...
A recent publication from researchers at the University of Kentucky explains the importance of identifying and understanding how differences between...
Climate change is making plants more vulnerable to disease. New research could help them fight back.
When heat waves hit, they don’t just take a toll on people—the plants we depend on for food suffer too....
The BirdNET app, a free machine-learning powered tool that can identify over 3,000 birds by sound alone, generates reliable scientific...
Australian paleontologists from Flinders University have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua...
