Pesticides use is fundamental to modern agriculture, shaping landscapes, and ensuring food security worldwide. However, persistent and widespread ...

Japanese snow monkeys don’t just soak in hot springs to escape the winter chill — their steamy spa sessions may also be ...

They are experts in a parasitic amoeba, scientific history, the health effects of stress and more, and now these eight faculty members can add a new title: Chancellor’s Fellow.The recognition is given ...

Mounting evidence has shown that the gut microbiota plays an essential role in human health and diseases and has been considered as therapeutic target in various chronic diseases. The diversity and ...

In the Mexican city of Tabasco, Cox investigated the dark, dangerous, and highly fascinating 'Cueva de Villa Luz' (translated to mean the cave of the house of light). While caves are scary enough, ...

Scientists have long known that these tiny ocean organisms produce special natural compounds that act like sunscreen. Now, new research suggests these same substances may also help human health in ...

For many years, scientists have been puzzled by individuals who live in high-elevation areas throughout the world. Surveys of high-altitude populations, from areas of the Andes to regions of the ...

A new cell-free genomics framework isolates the primary impacts of transcription factors and establishes tuberculosis as a model for understanding how genes are regulated.

A widespread bacteria called "soap scum" grows in Yellowstone National Park's thermal pools that on the surface doesn't seem ...

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz have just taken a huge step in the long history of lab-cultured ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...