Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather's compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre ...

When winter sets in and food becomes scarce, some mammals hibernate, entering a state of deep rest that slashes their energy needs and allows them to fast for months. However, fasting deprives them of ...

It looks so convenient. A neat little plastic container, filled with colorful chunks of melon, pineapple, or mango, just ...

Global carbon budgets attribute an incomplete role to cultivated plants due to the exclusion of annual crops, since they are not considered to result in net carbon accum ...

Bumblebee queens possess a remarkable ability to survive underwater for days, a feat achieved through a combination of physiological strategies. When their burrows flood, these queens enter an ...

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, ...

Discover the Human Organ Atlas, a new open data repository that allows access to multiscale three-dimensional imaging of human organs in cellular detail.