An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the ...

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the ...

Wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways climate change affects children around the ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that ...

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's ...

Wild African elephants living in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya appear to seek out specific plants when unwell. Local ...

Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme ...

When plant roots are injured—by insects, for example—the pressure inside the root drops, and a pressure wave spreads rapidly ...

Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune ...

Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide ...

Dryland ecosystems cover 40% of the Earth's land surface and support more than 2 billion people. According to a new study ...