Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...

Perhaps no coffee production would be better for biodiversity in these landscapes, but given that a lot of people really like ...

André Hesselbäck uses his photographic memory and higher-education expertise to sniff out rampant credential fraud and degree mills.

Ornithologist Ana Gonzalez studies migration patterns and works with local scientists to protect threatened birds.

Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. It is common ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study 1 involving both mice ...

For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to ...

Another recent policy change is an extension to the Distinguished Young Scholars (DYS) programme, which gives outstanding ...

My work gathers inspiration from a variety of unconventional model organisms, and they have a key role in bio-inspired design ...