Biology

A small chemical indicator placed inside fruit packaging, combined with a smartphone camera and an artificial-intelligence model, could turn an...

Fresh-cut apples could stay brighter, firmer and less vulnerable to spoilage with help from an unlikely ingredient: the common white...

A plant native to Türkiye has been recruited to build a new kind of multifunctional nanomaterial: zinc oxide particles wrapped...

A new statistical approach could give camel breeders a clearer way to measure an animal’s overall body size, replacing a...

A large international genomic study has mapped the hidden population structure of one of the world’s most concerning drug-resistant bacteria,...

Frogs, toads and their close relatives may be heading toward a future in which populations are not merely smaller in...

Untargeted metabolomics can detect thousands of chemical signals in blood, urine or tissue, yet a large fraction cannot be assigned...

In the shallow pools, puddles and water-filled depressions where malaria mosquitoes begin life, the most important clue may be invisible....

Norovirus diagnostics are undergoing a technological transformation, driven by a combination of biological complexity, rising outbreak pressure and the urgent...

A molecule released by gut bacteria could help determine whether cancer patients respond to one of modern oncology’s most powerful...