Researchers in Kerala, India have documented the first microscopic evidence of photosynthetic Symbiodiniaceae algae living symbiotically inside the mangrove mud...

Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels,...

Americans overwhelmingly understand that avoiding mosquito bites and controlling mosquito populations around the home is the most effective protection against...

Leaf nitrogen, the chemical currency of photosynthesis, is not distributed within leaves at random. According to a new study published...

Differential evolution has long been one of the workhorses of modern optimization. Since its introduction by Rainer Storn and Kenneth...

In the dense tropical forests of Thailand, a remarkable case of botanical deception has come to light—one that rewrites what...

Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught...

In the dim world beneath forest floors, one of nature's most remarkable hitchhiking arrangements has just come into sharper focus....

Bacteria that can eat one of the simplest carbon molecules on Earth—formate—and turn it into useful chemicals have long been...

Thousands of years before clay vessels became an ordinary fixture of human households, the hillsides of the ancient southern Levant...