The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be ...

A new study has revealed that small but mighty zooplankton—including copepods, krill, and salps—are key players in the ...

A team of zoologists, molecular engineers and pest control specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn't belong in beer. Now they've got the ...

The outcomes of a new study on the extent of future flooding caused by climate change along the Clyde Estuary could help ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian ...

It's well known that governing parties often lose voters over time—the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from ...