Theanine, a unique amino acid responsible for tea’s refreshing taste and calming effect, plays a central role in determining tea quality. While its ...

Scientists built a complete wheat gene map showing how different genes control plant growth and stress response.

Rothamsted scientists, together with partners at the University of Olomouc, Czechia, have uncovered how a family of genes in wheat fine-tunes the plant's growth and grain development, a breakthrough ...

What is ethnobotany and why does it matter? If you are anything like me and are fascinated with plants, you might be surprised to learn about a discipline within the botany world that is not as well ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz discovered important ...

A group of House Republicans has introduced a bill in Lansing that intends to ban all pornography online, including descriptions of "a disconnection between biology and gender." House Bill 4938, named ...

Jeffree Star was among the many people who condemned the killing of Charlie Kirk. The right-wing political activist was gunned down at the Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, while he was on ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Iberian harvester ant queens have a unique superpower: They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September 3 in the journal ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...

The Xenomorphs are arguably the greatest movie monsters of all time; a petrifying bundle of invasive parasites, weaponized jaws, and dangerously acidic blood. When director Ridley Scott teamed up with ...