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A concept as old as moral philosophy itself is being shaken by one of modern biology’s most transformative fields. In a new analysis published in...

Veterinary medicine is on the verge of losing one of its most tedious rituals. For decades, the microscopic hunt for heartworm larvae in a drop...

Microalgae have long been heralded as one of the most promising feedstocks for the renewable fuels of the future, but anyone who has spent time...

In the crowded, fermenting world of the cow rumen, a single microbial enzyme may hold the key to a long-standing problem in both animal health...

Copper has become the metal that the modern world cannot live without, and the pressure on mining companies to squeeze more of it out of...

A team of American researchers has taken one of the most detailed looks yet at emerging strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) circulating on US...

A single spray of fragmented DNA extracted from a plant’s own species may be enough to arm a crop against caterpillars, fungi, and bacteria while...

Every tumor tells a story in its DNA, but the mutations themselves are only half the tale. Scientists have long known that breast cancers can...

The black rabbits of China have long been prized by local farmers for their hardiness, their flavorful meat, and their remarkable ability to thrive where...

The race to build Generation IV nuclear reactors has an unsung bottleneck: no metal currently in service can comfortably survive the combination of extreme heat,...

Wheat feeds billions, and the shape of its spike, the flowering head that carries the grain, is one of the most important yet stubbornly difficult...

A natural pigment that gives tomatoes their deep red color may offer a surprisingly powerful defense against one of the world’s most pervasive food contaminants....

Cancer remains one of the most formidable threats to human health, and the gap between clinical need and available therapy has never closed completely. A...

A sweeping new analysis of medical research on modern warfare has arrived at a conclusion that is as stark as it is counterintuitive: although unmanned...

Italy’s leading epilepsy research centers have joined forces to answer one of neurology’s most stubborn questions: what is actually going on in the brains of...