Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

Nature’s most impressive conversations happen at frequencies we cannot hear. While humans perceive sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, many animals have evolved to communicate using infrasound. These ...

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a Sumatran orangutan they’d affectionately named Rakus carefully treating a ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

Scientists have elucidated how NodD recognizes flavonoids by resolving, for the first time, the high-resolution crystal structure of the complex formed between the NodD protein of pea rhizobia and the ...

In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU) method ...