Biology

Plants are often portrayed as nature’s quiet solar panels, converting sunlight into chemical energy with remarkable efficiency. Yet inside every...

Bees may be finding an overlooked source of protein in one of the most ordinary features of the Southeastern landscape:...

A new study has revealed that some Gram-positive bacteria may overcome one of the fundamental limitations of their cell architecture...

Cervical cancer may need more than a single therapeutic strategy, according to a new study that combines large-scale gene-expression analysis...

A new study is giving scientists an unusually detailed view of how the maize embryo builds its first leaves, using...

A new study suggests that attention is not merely a way for the brain to interpret sensations from the body....

An international team of researchers has identified a new genus and species of subterranean fish living in the water-filled sediments...

Plants cannot flee when their bodies begin to weaken. Instead, they must detect structural damage, identify its source and rapidly...

A hidden layer of the silkworm genome has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, revealing a surprisingly stable but evolutionarily...

In a discovery that could reshape scientists’ understanding of how photosynthetic organisms capture carbon, researchers have rebuilt a working version...