A new review finds that COVID-19 lockdowns had only brief or illusory effects on head louse prevalence, with some communities...

Researchers created biodegradable films from polyvinyl alcohol, flaxseed gum and chlorogenic acid that showed strong antioxidant and antibacterial activity and...

A small domain of the cofactor Ufd1 unfolds K48-linked ubiquitin without ATP by cooperatively binding two ubiquitin molecules, providing the...

In the world of behavioral science, few findings have proven as robust—or as puzzling—as the suboptimal choice phenomenon. When pigeons...

An integrated proteomics and metabolomics study reveals how hormones, energy metabolism and anthocyanin enzymes coordinate flower bud development in the...

A new Nature Communications study shows that LGR5-positive fibroblasts coordinate how skin adapts to mechanical stress through JAK1-dependent signaling pathways.

A new study shows that soluble PDGFRβ isoforms, produced under hypoxic conditions in the developing placenta, act as feedback modulators...

An invasive tick species that has already rewritten the epidemiological map of North America and Oceania has now been documented...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising explanation for why anxiety so often accompanies inflammatory bowel disease, tracing the link to a...

In the flood-prone waterways of north-central Nigeria, a team of parasitologists has shown that satellite data and a decades-old statistical...