University of Missouri researchers have created rice plants that resist bacterial blight, a devastating disease that ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

A study analyzing the effects of climate change on vascular plants in the United States finds that the fate of individual ...

A flower strip is established along the edge of a field. A wetland is restored. More seminatural habitats are created. The ...

There is a problem in low Earth orbit, and it's growing. According to the European Space Agency, there are about 19,440 ...

In some group-living animals, individuals other than the parents help care for offspring. This breeding system, known as ...

New research from the University of Sydney expands the potential medicinal benefits of honey and propolis (the plant resin ...

The rapid increase in the availability of genomic data has transformed plant breeding by enabling the prediction of complex ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork have discovered that the evolution of fish is linked to the shape, location and ...

In humans, hunting is considered a man's endeavor. But in one of our closest living relatives, hunting is primarily women's ...

Researchers from Jülich, Aachen and Cologne have performed a quantum operation on a qubit in just 6.8 nanoseconds—with more ...

To prevent the spread of dangerous diseases by mosquitoes, scientists have long studied their reproductive mechanisms to ...