When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

A research team led by the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Liège reveals the mechanism by which surfactin, a molecule produced by beneficial soil bacteria, activates plants' immune defenses. This mechanism, ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to ...

An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana very efficiently. This process involves degrading a ...

A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future ...

In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is purely the pursuit of understanding the unknown, ...

Why do organizations often return to old patterns even after leaders invest in culture change, training, and transformation ...

Ph.D. student Hanne Kloster at the University of Agder (UiA) is behind the first Norwegian study to look at three tick-borne ...