The smallest wetlands may be doing two apparently contradictory things at once: locking away carbon through vigorous plant growth while ...

Water managers often face an uncomfortable mathematical reality: the decisions they must make are regional, expensive and urgent, while the ...

A new earthquake-engineering study of Catania, Sicily, suggests that the seismic safety of an urban tunnel cannot be judged by ...

A tropical tree revered in traditional medicine may contain a far more intricate chemical factory than previously understood. In a ...

Tiny gold particles carrying genetic targeting molecules have produced a striking two-stage response in leukemia-like cells, briefly quieting key immune ...

A simple chemical “sniff test” built from tiny coated patches could help researchers detect the lung-associated pathogen Burkholderia cepacia by ...

A small flowering plant has revealed an unexpected genetic route toward combating one of agriculture’s most persistent soilborne diseases. Researchers ...

Plants may be quietly rewriting the rules of fertilizer use. A new review argues that nitrate—the dominant form of nitrogen ...

A genetic twist may help explain why dementia with Lewy bodies can look so different from one patient to the ...

Mitral valve prolapse is often described as a benign heart condition, but a prospective study suggests that a subset of ...