Reindeer grazing changes the vegetation of northern pine forests below ground as well as above it. In a recent study in ...

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have partnered with colleagues in Göttingen, Berlin, Paris and Essen to develop new optogenetic tools that can selectively inhibit cellular activity through ...

By the time a child reaches the age of 4 or 5, most parents and caregivers have heard about "kindergarten readiness." But what if a 5-year-old still struggles to count to 10, sing the alphabet song or ...

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

A shark that has become a viral sensation in South Korea was coaxed out of a canal in which it was stuck, authorities said on ...

Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

Sitting in his narrow dugout canoe, Jean-Romeo Senguemboli frowned at the meager catch in his nets on the Central African ...

An absence of women scientists in U.K. exam board specifications for science could be a factor in the disproportionate number of girls dropping STEM subjects at 16 and contribute to the gender gap in ...

Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at ...

Systemic changes are needed across the entire agri-food supply chain to address the global impact of conflict and climate change on food shortages, writes an expert in The BMJ's climate issue.