Ecologists describe the interaction as a form of indirect niche construction. An organism changes its surroundings, and ...

When plant nutrients run low, some gut bacteria may turn on their host and begin consuming the intestines’ protective lining.

A sip of sparkling water briefly makes the mouth more acidic, but not nearly as much as sugar-sweetened soda, according to a ...

The Mithaka people have a rich archaeological record that highlights the deep importance of plants in everyday life. Our ...

One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for scale. Credit ...

Periods of sustained warming can last for weeks to months at a time, with a distinct marine heatwave embedded between them ...

A Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf could become the first confirmed moon beyond our Solar System.

Keratin helps make that possible. It belongs to a family of proteins known as intermediate filaments, which form durable ...

Between midlife and older age, brain cells undergo unexpected shifts in inflammation and gene regulation. The findings ...

Researchers also found that face-related neural signals became increasingly specialized with age in neurotypical children, while autistic children showed little comparable refinement. This altered ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...

NASA ’s Curiosity rover has encountered an enormous field of honeycomb-shaped fractures while climbing through a Martian ...