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Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.

Increasing evidence suggests that loss of Earth’s biological diversity will compromise our planet’s ability to provide the goods and services societies need to prosper.

US scientists struggle to complete studies in Ecuador in the wake of biopiracy accusations.

Using a new assembly method, scientists have combined multiple enzymes in a polymer nanocapsule to reduce blood alcohol levels and liver damage in drunken mice.
 

Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.

A new play explores the mind of the father of modern physics through his interactions—factual and imagined—with a curmudgeonly colleague.

A psychiatric drug in the water can cause perch to be less social, more voracious hunters.

New research adds to an emerging picture of the changes that global warming and thinning ice are wreaking on the marine ecosystems at the top of the world.

As reproductive tissues age, DNA repair mechanisms become less efficient, causing genomic damage to accumulate.

In a pond, more amphibian species mean decreased chances of disease spread.

A new faster-switching, longer-lasting GFP allows gentler and faster high resolution microscopy on living cells.

The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.