Biology

In a finding that rewrites what scientists thought they knew about one of medicine's most overlooked gut bacteria, researchers have...

Cassava is a lifeline for millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa, but it is an imperfect lifeline. The starchy roots...

Magnesium has spent most of its scientific life backstage — the unglamorous electrolyte that keeps cellular housekeeping running while genes,...

Scientists have identified a little-known signalling protein that appears to operate as a hidden engine of colorectal cancer, quietly fuelling...

In a finding that blurs one of the sharpest diagnostic lines in endocrine medicine, veterinarians in South Korea have documented...

For decades, doctors have measured a thin pocket of fluid at the back of the fetal neck during routine first-trimester...

When a private zoo in Abeokuta, Nigeria, called for veterinary help on 14 February 2020, the patient in question was...

In a result that reads like alchemy from the brewing world, Italian researchers have taken barley malt and hops—the raw...

Few debates divide the gym floor as reliably as the question of heavy versus light lifting. Coaches have long argued...

A massive systematic review and meta-analysis has delivered the most complete picture to date of where Echinococcus multilocularis—the tiny tapeworm...