Scientists have found how a protein produced by bacteria disrupts the mechanism that controls flower development in plants, ...

Helicobacter pylori bacteria infect around half the global population and are a leading cause of stomach ulcers and gastric ...

Xufeng Zhang is using magnets to make computers more power efficient at the quantum level. The Northeastern professor of ...

Chemical separation can be energy-intensive when molecules have similar sizes and properties. Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, have now developed an interlayer adaptive ...

Shorebirds are capable of some of the longest migrations on Earth, yet most return year after year to the same area to breed.

From a mountainside overlooking Utah's Great Salt Lake, a time traveler turning back the clock 20,000 years would watch a dramatic transformation of the landscape. The shallow, salty lake below would ...

An international team that includes researchers from Murdoch University's Centre for Crop and Food Innovation (CCFI) has built the most comprehensive genetic map of the peanut yet and used this new ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, Queen Mary University of London and other European ...

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency of both droughts and floods, meaning back-to-back extreme events are also on the ...

For more than a decade, it was thought that the world's most plastic-polluted birds couldn't get any more contaminated by the man-made material. But then, from 2023–2026, the record was broken every ...

When two popular science magazines—out of about 17 in circulation—ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, ...