Madagascar is the most important country for vanilla production—the fragrant ingredient that is a favorite flavor for ice cream, cakes...
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion...
Parents face a trade-off between putting resources into their offspring versus using resources to enhance their chances of survival so...
The discovery of two new and unusual species of diatoms (phytoplankton) in Hawaiian waters was announced by a team of...
Bacteria show great promise as a source of active ingredients. Using computer-based genome analysis, researchers at ETH Zurich have now...
Algae are more than just the green scum that shows up on aquarium walls. The tiny plants, when teamed up...
We typically think of plants strutting their best stuff aboveground: showy flowers, fragrant blossoms, and unique shapes abound. But their...
In image compression, a large file that could be cumbersome to store or share loses a small amount of visual...
There’s a virus infecting mammals, spread through close contact, sneezing, and coughing. It makes some individuals sicker than others, it...
Synergy isn’t always a good thing—take climate change and invasive plants. Scientists have long hypothesized that climate change, by intensifying...
Human primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the early precursors of the eggs (oocytes) and sperm that are necessary to keep...
Researchers are calling for better protection of tropical sea cucumbers in the Great Barrier Reef whose numbers are dwindling due...
