Modern food preservation methods are significantly different from those that our ancestors had at their disposal.

Researchers have developed a rapid colour-changing test that can distinguish between different strains of golden staph, including those likely to be ...

Science rarely announces itself with fanfare. Most of the discoveries that have reshaped medicine, technology, and our ...

On Shodoshima, a handful of brewers are fighting to preserve a 400-year-old flavour, one wooden barrel at a time.

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were first discovered. The Cambrian Period, 539 million to 485 million years ago, ...

As environmental pressures intensify, the role of plant biotechnology in arable agriculture is becoming critical to global ...

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Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have successfully synthesized bacteriochlorophyll a, which is a ...

Biofilm-resident bacteria and fungi are significantly more tolerant to conventional antibiotics. The extracellular polymeric substance matrix acts as a ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...