Before antibiotics and antiseptics, healers across ancient Egypt, Greece, and China reached for honey to treat wounds.

LMU computational biologist helps uncover how the Amazon molly maintains a healthy genome without sexual reproduction ...

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

You probably think tossing groceries anywhere in your kitchen is fine, right? Think again. Where you stash your food matters ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

Microplastics cause decreases in the populations of grazing animals in ponds, ultimately resulting in toxic algal blooms.

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

Researcher developed the Ecological Network Balance Index (ENBI), a stool-based tool that tracks gut microbe interactions. It ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

Almost everyone carries microscopic mites on their skin. They live inside pores and hair follicles, feeding on skin oils and ...