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Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food sectors on the planet, but raising fish at high density in closed systems creates a stubborn chemical...

Sugar beet is one of the world’s most important sources of sugar, yet like nearly every crop plant that has passed through the bottleneck of...

For decades, salicylic acid has been known as the chemical alarm bell of the plant world. When pathogens attack, levels of this simple hormone surge...

Grafting has long been the workhorse of clonal tree propagation, but a new study in BMC Plant Biology has pulled back the curtain on why...

Every heartbeat sends a faint mechanical shudder through the chest wall and the rest of the body. For more than two decades, researchers have tried...

Aroma complexity is one of those words that everyone in the wine, coffee, tea, and spirits worlds uses, yet almost nobody can measure. It evokes...

Deep in the cold waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar lives a fish that has long puzzled scientists trying to untangle its family tree. Schizothorax...

Bitcoin was designed to move money without banks, borders, or names attached to the transactions. That same design, however, has made the world’s largest cryptocurrency...

A sweeping new analysis of a decade of agricultural research suggests that the way we farm may shape not only what grows in our fields,...

Community pharmacists in Saudi Arabia are among the most accessible healthcare professionals in the country, yet a new cross-sectional study suggests they are falling short...

Imagine a material that cleans polluted water simply by being stirred, and that could one day help mend broken bones. That is the tantalizing dual...

Cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern medicine, with nearly two million new diagnoses and roughly six hundred thousand deaths reported in...

Childhood stunting remains one of the most stubborn markers of global health inequality, and a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Pediatric Research has...

The Maillard reaction has long been food science’s most famous double agent: the same browning chemistry that gives baked bread and seared steak their irresistible...

Mitochondria may be famous as the powerhouses of the cell, but a new study argues that they are also among its most closely guarded assets....