The diet profoundly influences both human health and the environment. Poor dietary habits, particularly those lacking ...

The charity and its citizen scientists called on the UK government to ban pesticides that can harm butterflies and bees. And ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting ...

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...

The Sewage Map, the first comprehensive waterways map, has been created to show the true extent of untreated sewage being ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

The war in Gaza will leave its mark in many ways, long after the recently negotiated ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. One legacy relates to how the chaos of war provides the perfect storm for ...

There is a prospect for change. A “small and closing window” of opportunity for the UK to reverse its decline and ensure the economic potential.

Researchers from the United Kingdom’s Aston University surveyed 495 people in 2014 about the five-second rule – the belief ...

It's the first known example of a direct interkingdom contact ... It was surprising to see the ER stably associating around the bacteria. As a cytosolic pathogen that exists freely in the cytosol ...