India joined the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1983 with four iconic cultural sites—Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra Fort, ...

Nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture contribute significantly to global warming. A new breeding concept, specifically for ...

Buggs added: “Lots of textbooks about evolution have hypothetical examples of natural selection driving change in quantitative traits (for example, size and speed of wolves) but these are ...

The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject's life, equally celebrating ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Wild tomatoes from the Galápagos Islands are reversing evolution and regaining an ancient chemical defense after millions of ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

Pharmaceutical tariffs are coming, part of President Trump’s stated goal of bringing drug manufacturing back to the U.S.

Gain-of-function experiments are ingrained in the scientific process. In many instances, the benefits that stem from gain-of-function experiments are not immediately clear. Only decades later does the ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new generation of ash trees, growing naturally in woodland, is showing greater resistance to the ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

It’s one of the strangest examples of natural selection we’ve seen, and it’s as fascinating as it is funny-looking.