Feb. 27, 2025 — A new study has identified a genetic circuit in plants that controls individual leaf growth and allows the plants to adapt to their environment. The findings could help the ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow.

It has long been the subject of intense scientific study. Recently, researchers have stumbled upon an unexpected ally in the fight against this prevalent condition – the humble gut microbe. It appears ...

Amazon workers in North Carolina have voted against a proposal to unionize, a win for the retail giant in its fight against organized labor at its facilities. About 4,300 employees at an Amazon ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Amazon (AMZN) is a more complex phenomenon than a highly successful marketplace selling its items and enabling third-party vendors to use its platform to sell its products. It is a multinational ...

The bodies of actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were discovered in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday afternoon during a ...

Five days after take off, astronaut Luca Parmitano unpacked microbe-laden cartridges and installed them in an incubator. The bacteria were given liquid growth media plus Icelandic basalt ...

Amazon.com AMZN-2.83%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S., is stumbling in its efforts to compete in the bricks-and-mortar world. The company in 2018 ...

“I used to dream microbes as food,” she recently recalled. Today, Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist and a deputy director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate ...

After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank ... according to analysis by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), with deforestation most severe in the lowlands.