Biology

Foul odors can be a cue to something much worse. CSU professor Jessica Metcalf is helping build smarter defenses against...

Breeding crops for thousands of years has narrowed genetic diversity into tight corridors, delivering steady gains—yet today progress is slowing....

Cadmium contamination in farmland is a persistent threat to crop safety because the metal can be taken up by plant...

A long-standing idea proposed that the 66-million-year-ago asteroid impact that ended non-avian dinosaurs—along with many large marine predators—opened an ecological...

Flower color is often treated like an aesthetic detail, but new research shows it can be the product of intense...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about plant development, researchers report that the spatial “zoning” patterns emerging...

Heat waves don’t just exhaust people—they force cells to rethink what they can afford to do. For years, scientists have...

In a breakthrough for plant epitranscriptomics, researchers report that Arabidopsis thaliana uses N1-methyladenosine (m1A) to modulate mRNA behavior with base-level...

Micromanipulating tiny objects in 3D—especially in highly viscous environments—has long been a stubborn challenge. Force-based approaches often lose effectiveness as...

Microbial communities rarely behave like chaotic crowds. Instead, new work in Nature Microbiology suggests they may shift in strikingly orderly...