Biology

When microbes are wired to an electrode and asked to build chemicals out of carbon dioxide, they apparently do far...

Some of the most important genomes of our time are not stored in freezers or sequencing centers, but in the...

Every seed is a wager on sugar. Inside an oilseed such as rapeseed or castor bean lies a cache of...

Viruses have long been cast as the ultimate freeloaders of the living world: stripped-down genetic packages that depend on host...

In a laboratory in western Iran, a parasite that has shadowed humanity since antiquity has just met a tree that...

For more than a century, the workhorse of bacterial detection has been essentially unchanged: smear a sample onto a gel-like...

In the soil around a leaking industrial battery, scientists have found a microscopic ally with a taste for one of...

Of the roughly one million insect species known to science, only about 1,400 have managed to colonize the sea, and...

In a finding that could reshape how smallholder farmers feed their livestock, researchers in Nigeria report that a humble, sweet...

Ethiopia's Hospital Superbugs Carry the World's Most Feared Resistance Genes, Genome Study Reveals In a laboratory in Addis Ababa, researchers...