Between 35,000 and 45,000 years ago, modern humans spread throughout Europe. Around the same time, Neanderthals disappeared...

Step by step, researchers have for years been working to re-engineer the biochemical pathway that poppies use...

Neuroscientists have developed a method to pick out an individual solely by his connectome—a pattern of synchronized...

Much attention paid to the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system has focused on its uses as a gene-editing tool....

Social corbiculate bees—which include honeybees, bumblebees, and stingless bees—share a core set of gut microbes, and likely...

Yesterday (April 26), the White House released its “Bioeconomy Blueprint,” a strategy to spur the development of...

A curator’s curiosity jumpstarted a 10-year journey that led from a collection of decades-old remains to the...

Scientists had been warning agrichemical companies and US corn farmers for years that the western corn rootworm...

With the rise of microbes that have evolved resistance to even the most powerful antibiotics, researchers are...

Fecal transplants from humans with irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety into mice lead to similar symptoms and...