A look at some of biology’s communication networks
Discoveries of microbial communities that transfer electrons between cells and across relatively long distances are launching a new field of microbiology.
Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism.
Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
Researchers in the Amazon are measuring how much carbon dioxide fertilizes the rainforest.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.