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Credit: California Walnut Commission FOLSOM, Calif., July 25, 2017 - Conclusions from a new animal study suggest that walnut consumption may be beneficial for digestive...

Credit: Jin M. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 23, 2017 "Smart" materials that change color in response to a mechanical stimulus...

Queensland University of Technology will deploy drones in a high-tech effort to find and protect koalas in South East Queensland, with the State Government announcing...

Credit: ZHANG Jingxiong Around 1% of flowering plants are parasites. Some of these parasites can survive without host plants while others cannot. The former are...

A gene controlling cell size has been identified in a microalgal group which underpins a fifth of the world's food chains. Scientists at The University...

Credit: EPFL EPFL researchers are taking part in an ambitious project funded by the Swiss NanoTera Program and aimed at developing a swimming robot that...

Credit: Jingxiong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Plants of the genus Cuscuta have colorful folk names, such as wizard's net, devil's guts, strangle tare or...

Textbooks tell us that, in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses, the host plant supplies its fungal symbionts solely with sugars, in return for inorganic nutrients. New findings...

Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing bones in mice, which controls...

Credit: Earlham Institute SPECTRE, a new open-source software package, simplifies the complex business of creating phylogenetic networks and trees. It has been written by bioinformaticians...

Credit: University of Seville The group of Doctor Myriam Calonje Macaya from the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (IBVF), a mixed centre from the...

Credit: Matthew R. Ryan With herbicide resistance on the rise, there is a renewed emphasis on soil tillage as a critical component of integrated weed...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that microbial species living on cheese have transferred thousands of genes between each other. They...

Boston, Mass. -- Drug-releasing devices that reside in the stomach for extended periods of time make it easier for patients to receive their full course...

Credit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Winer and Alexander Ploss, Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology Scientists from Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology have s..