Research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem—a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle—that ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a lurking threat in hospitals around the world. As more strains of bacteria and other microbes ...

Sliding ferroelectrics are a type of two-dimensional (2D) material realized by stacking nonpolar monolayers (atom-thick ...

Dr. Luis Pezo-Lanfranco and his colleagues conducted stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diets of 38 human individuals ...

A research team at McMaster University has discovered a new drug class that could someday lead to breakthrough treatments for ...

A new study reveals how Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis), a common food bacterium, regulates the production of a key precursor ...

Tile drainage is a common practice used in agricultural fields to remove excess water, but it also transports harmful ...

Pollinators play a vital role in fertilizing flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our agriculture. But ...

In materials science, defects are usually seen as problems, unwanted microscopic features that degrade performance, reduce ...

Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest.

The Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, is a large insect native to Asia, characterized by the large horn of ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...