A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
A chance encounter with a crab apple tree leads to the discovery of a new bacterial species and clues to the evolution of insect endosymbionts.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
Scientists set up a stakeout to track the movements of microbes around a new hospital.
Cockfighting and other cultural practices in Southeast Asia could greatly aid the spread of deadly diseases like bird flu.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Diverse plant communities create a disease-fighting "soil genotype."
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.