EU bans controversial pesticide

A controversial pesticide linked to developmental problems in humans will be definitively banned in the EU…

Team finds link between vitamin A and brain response in Monarch butterflies

Biologists at Texas A&M University are making strides in understanding biological clock function in several model…

Novel way to ID disease-resistance genes in chocolate-producing trees found

Chocolate-producing cacao trees that are resistant to a major pathogen were identified by an international team…

Discovery of a new protein gives insight into a long-standing plant immunity mystery

When a plant senses an invading pathogen, it activates a molecular signaling cascade that switch on…

Scientists have spotted new compounds with herbicidal potential from sea fungus

Scientists at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic…

A 6,000-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts

Historians often trace the dawn of human civilization back 10,000 years, when Neolithic tribes first settled…

SpaceX Dragon heads to space station with NASA science

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching…

Simple experiment explains magnetic resonance

Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic…

Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining

Resting atop Thomas Peacock’s desk is an ordinary-looking brown rock. Roughly the size of a potato,…

35-year data record charts sea-temperature change

Four trillion satellite measurements, taken over four decades from 1981 to 2018, have been merged to…