Biology

In the escalating battle against drug-resistant fungi, one of the most stubborn obstacles has been simply seeing the enemy clearly....

Deep in the shallow freshwater ponds of King George Island, one of the most inhospitable landscapes on Earth, a tiny...

Vitamin E, one of the most widely studied antioxidant supplements in medicine, has returned to the center of liver research...

Latin America's Creole cattle, the hardy descendants of the Iberian livestock that arrived with the first European colonists more than...

In an era when antibiotic-free farming is no longer a niche aspiration but a regulatory and commercial reality, scientists are...

Cells that copy their genomes over and over without ever dividing may sound like a recipe for genomic disaster, but...

In the forests of western Russia, a wild boar shot during routine wildlife monitoring has turned out to carry something...

Superficial fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails—collectively known as dermatomycoses—are among the most common infectious diseases on the...

Universities have long struggled with a deceptively simple question: how do you split a limited pot of money between departments,...

Fermented turmeric, ginger and other medicinal rhizomes may do far more than add flavour to a meal. According to a...