Biology

Viruses have long been cast as the ultimate freeloaders of the living world: stripped-down genetic packages that depend on host...

In a laboratory in western Iran, a parasite that has shadowed humanity since antiquity has just met a tree that...

For more than a century, the workhorse of bacterial detection has been essentially unchanged: smear a sample onto a gel-like...

In the soil around a leaking industrial battery, scientists have found a microscopic ally with a taste for one of...

Of the roughly one million insect species known to science, only about 1,400 have managed to colonize the sea, and...

In a finding that could reshape how smallholder farmers feed their livestock, researchers in Nigeria report that a humble, sweet...

Ethiopia's Hospital Superbugs Carry the World's Most Feared Resistance Genes, Genome Study Reveals In a laboratory in Addis Ababa, researchers...

Decoding Sumatra's "King of the River": First Complete Mitogenome of the Enigmatic Mahseer Traces an Ancient Maternal Line Through Sunken...

Rodents living on the roof of the world do not burn fuel the way their lowland cousins do, according to...

Sepsis — the runaway, body-wide immune collapse that follows an infection — remains one of the deadliest conditions in modern...