A wild relative of cacao has yielded a remarkably complete genetic blueprint that could help scientists understand how tropical trees...

A Mineral Boost Could Transform How Probiotic Bacteria Ferment Milk A carefully chosen mineral combination has dramatically improved the growth...

A new artificial-intelligence strategy is designed to tackle one of the most stubborn problems in computational science: how to find...

A new artificial-intelligence system could help air-defense planners coordinate complex engagements more quickly by learning how targets, sensors, weapons and...

A trio of tiny snails collected along China’s coasts and waterways has provided scientists with new genetic clues to one...

Artificial intelligence systems are often praised for their accuracy at the moment they are deployed. Yet the world these systems...

For decades, one of the most persistent explanations for the disappearance of Neanderthals has been that climate change broke their...

A sweeping evolutionary analysis of nearly 700 genera has redrawn the family tree of Neogastropoda, one of the most diverse...

A new study in Nature Communications offers a fresh explanation for one of evolution’s most persistent puzzles: why some groups...

A new meta-analysis is challenging one of ecology’s most familiar assumptions: that the effects of large animals depend primarily on...