In the bustling world of an ant colony, not every worker answers the call when a nestmate is in trouble....

When a previously healthy young person dies suddenly and a full autopsy finds nothing, families are often left with a...

The humble tendon, that rope-like tissue anchoring muscle to bone, has long kept its molecular secrets hidden. Now a team...

In the quest to feed a growing global population while reducing dependence on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, scientists are increasingly turning...

In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture's most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown...

The roughly 40 weeks of human gestation represent one of the most physiologically demanding episodes in a person's life, yet...

Tiny genes have long been dismissed as genomic noise, too short to matter and too difficult to detect to bother...

A team of computational geneticists and epidemiologists has unveiled a cloud-based workflow that promises to strip away one of the...

Rifabutin, a lesser-known cousin of the frontline tuberculosis drug rifampicin, may hold new life as a treatment option for multidrug-resistant...

In the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers have grown a remarkable variety of maize for generations. Unlike the corn cultivated...