Israeli scientists produce energy from plants

Israeli scientists say they have produced hydrogen from plants in a development that they hope could…

The disease pyramid: Environment, pathogen, individual and microbiome

Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), the Université de Toulouse and…

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

For a nematode worm, a big lawn of the bacteria that it eats is a great…

Global air pollution maps now available

A new online platform that allows for the tracking of air pollution worldwide is now available…

Novel noncovalent bond blocks repulsive odor of isocyanides

Isocyanides are an important class of organic compounds owing to a wide range of chemical transformations…

Presence of devastating pest confirmed on Socotra Island

CABI scientist Dr. Arne Witt has led an international team of researchers who have confirmed for…

Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis

Mass burials are common remnants of the many plague outbreaks that ravaged Medieval Europe. A number…

Three ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis

The world has failed to halt global warming. Four years after the signing of the Paris…

Lights in the eyes for better disguise

This hatchetfish hides from predators swimming in the shadowy depths below using a clever disguise. Glowing…

Exploring the diversity of cell gatekeepers could be the key to better crops

Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in…