In arid regions, the microbes that power threatened dryland soil ecosystems called biological soil crusts stay dormant over ...

In biomedicine, sorting cells accurately without damaging them remains a persistent problem. Current methods, like ...

Plants are green because of a pigment that is key to photosynthesis: chlorophyll. In its production, the enzyme chlorophyll ...

Could extinction itself become a thing of the past? Advances in biotechnology, including ancient DNA sequencing, genome ...

A tiny biodegradable bubble can move away from a chemical on its own, without a motor. Living cells need complex molecular ...

More than 2 billion people, or approximately one-quarter of the world's population, lack access to safe water, sanitation and ...

Cyclopia is the most severe form of a rare birth condition in which the developing brain fails to divide into two separate ...

The Okinawa rail (Hypotaenidia okinawae) is an endangered flightless bird endemic to the Yanbaru forest region of Okinawa ...

Iberian people continued using, and possibly building, massive necropolises well into the Bronze Age, according to a study ...

Newly discovered artifacts are evidence of the earliest known example of a tradition of making clay figurines in the Middle ...

In three species of monkey, the complex pattern of ridges on the feet and palms varies between individuals, similar to human ...

Around 12 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole of the galaxy Centaurus A is hurling two enormous plasma jets ...