Engineers showed that some types of soil bacteria can influence a plant's balance of growth and defense. The bacteria produce an enzyme that can lower a plant's immune activity and allow its roots to ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The Rafflesia, known as the "corpse flower", smells and looks like rotting flesh. It has a meat-like appearance with large, ...

Each year, researchers discover an estimated 18,000 new species across the globe. These new species include small mammals, ...

Research has already shown that climate change is causing nutrient dilution in human food crops. Declines in micronutrients, ...

A preprint paper published on bioRxiv shows that some living things engage in biofluorescence at a wavelength that humans can ...

NASA-supported scientists have suggested an updated framework for the role of ferns in environmental recovery from disaster.

Each episode highlights an aspect of animal life. The first episode, for example, is Leaving Home, which charts the progress of a lizard, seal and fish as they move into new and possibly hazardous ...

In US, two men died from a rare lung infection after using bat guano as fertiliser for cannabis plants. (Pixabay) The first man, aged 59, had purchased bat guano online, hoping to use it as a ...

A 10-part series narrated by an enthusiastic Hugh Bonneville, “The Secret Lives of Animals” distinguishes itself in at least two ways aside from extraordinary cinematography, anxious ...

Horses are well-known to be extremely intelligent and emotional beings and more and more people want to learn more about these fascinating animals, who are companions for numerous humans and also ...