Biology

In the dense tropical forests of Thailand, a remarkable case of botanical deception has come to light—one that rewrites what...

In a finding that is reshaping how veterinarians and molecular epidemiologists understand the hidden diversity of one of the world's...

Scientists in South Korea have taken a major step toward transforming one of the country's oldest culinary traditions into a...

Antibiotics save lives, but they can also wreck the delicate microbial ecosystem of the gut, and in children that collateral...

For centuries, the resin of a small, scrubby tree that grows in the arid mountains of the Arabian Peninsula has...

Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught...

The soybean pod borer, Leguminivora glycinivorella, has long been one of the most destructive pests of soybean crops across China...

The ancient fig tree, one of the first plants ever domesticated by humans, is hiding remarkable genetic secrets in the...

In the dim world beneath forest floors, one of nature's most remarkable hitchhiking arrangements has just come into sharper focus....

Researchers at Near East University in Cyprus have documented, for the first time, the presence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains...