For farmers, sometimes the easiest way to save a crop or prevent catastrophic insect damage is to spray a pesticide. But this ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

A collaboration between a rural, urgent care center network and diagnostics company may be laying the groundwork for speeding ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...

Working with Mother Nature may require adopting a new mindset, but for some farmers these four practices could be the ...

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...

Pharmaceutical residues in aquatic environments are increasingly recognized as hidden neurotoxic threats. New research ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...