Biology

The ocean has spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting the chemistry of tearing chitin apart, and scientists in India...

The potato has earned its place as one of humanity's most dependable staples: calorie-dense, fast-maturing and adaptable enough to help...

Uterine fibroids may be the most familiar enemy most people have never heard of. These benign tumors of the muscular...

On a June morning in 2024, in a village tucked between arable fields and secondary forest in northeastern China, field...

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...