Tracing the flow of water with DNA

Environmental DNA analysis of microbial communities can help us understand how a particular region’s water cycle…

Discovery of anti-cancer chemistry makes skullcap fit for modern medicine

The evolutionary secrets that enable the medicinal herb known as barbed skullcap to produce cancer fighting…

Electronic nose: Sensing the odor molecules on graphene surface layered with self-assembled peptides

Graphene-based olfactory sensors that can detect odor molecules based on the design of peptide sequences were…

Lower bacterial diversity is associated with irritable bowel syndrome

People with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have lower bacterial diversity in the intestine than do healthy…

Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth's past

Shrunken seashells and unusually dark sediment cores have helped geoscientists better understand the chronology and character…

Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death

Seeking to better understand more about the origins and movement of bubonic plague, in ancient and…

Black-legged tick genome deciphered

Scientists have deciphered a comprehensive, continuous genome for a parasite responsible for transmitting Lyme disease and…

Approaching the terahertz regime

A class of nonvolatile memory devices, called MRAM, based on quantum magnetic materials, can offer a…

Specific immune response to Epstein-Barr virus discovered

Medical science has not yet been able to explain why the Epstein-Barr virus triggers infectious mononucleosis…

Violence was widespread in early farming society

Violence and warfare were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe, a period associated with…