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Past and present mining pressures have been found to be extensive across the study region and often overlap with important populations of salmon, trout and char.

Engineers have developed lithium-ion batteries that perform well at freezing cold and scorching hot temperatures.

A recent breakthrough from Tokyo University of Science researchers has reduced the synthesis time of antibacterial compounds from days to just 10 minutes.

An antibody test for SARS-CoV-2 that doesn't require a blood test has been developed, as it uses microneedles and a paper-based immnuoassay instead.

A coral pathogen that causes stony coral tissue loss disease eliminates other bacteria associated with coral by inducing prophage in the native microbiota.

Using cutting-edge sequencing technology and powerful computational analysis, scientists have revealed that the two phyla, Kamptozoa and Bryozoa, split from mollusks and worms earlier than previous studies have suggested, and thus they indeed form a distinct group.

Researchers investigating the exposure of small mammals to plastics in England and Wales have found traces in the feces of more than half of the species examined.

While often associated with health benefits, so called "superfoods" are poorly defined and may even be harmful in concentrated forms.

A new algorithm has been developed in the direction of near-infrared spectroscopy, which is suitable for high-throughput identification of the authenticity of crop varieties.

An important gene in maize has been found to modulate certain chemical processes that contribute to flowering time, and has its origins in a precursor to modern-day corn that grows wild in the highlands of Mexico.