Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

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The genomics of peppermint are not as fresh as their flavor but scientists from the University of California, Davis, have found a way to breathe new genetic variation into the species. The findings, ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

Cacti may look like slow, stubborn desert survivors, but they’re actually evolving at lightning speed. Scientists studying ...

Stephen Wright, a leading scientist in the emerging field of plant evolutionary genomics, has been appointed dean of the ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 studies involving 17,380 pregnant women found that common mental disorders ...

The pond at Oxford University Parks is not much to look at. It is a small, artificial freshwater basin on the edge of campus, the kind of place students walk past on the way to lectures. But in April ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have discovered that many gut bacteria use a ...

Genetic variation within Drosophila populations underpins our understanding of how organisms adapt to changing environments. As a premier model, Drosophila offers finely resolved genomic tools and ...