Biology

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...

Somewhere between the milking parlour and the supermarket shelf, a quiet arms race is under way, and for once the...

The people who raise the world's pigs spend their working lives inside one of the most microbially concentrated environments modern...

More than six years after SARS-CoV-2 swept across the globe, millions of people remain caught in the disease's longest shadow...

For mills cold-pressing hemp seeds, the pressing is only half the story. What remains — a dense, fibrous residue called...

The wild relatives of rice have long been treated as a genetic reserve — a pool of untapped traits that...

In the mist-draped rainforests of Grenada, researchers have quietly achieved something that until recently would have demanded a killing jar,...

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