When forensic linguist Claire Hardaker’s team at Lancaster University submitted a grant proposal on the risks of trusting artificial intelligence (AI) models in voice analysis, they assumed it...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream in science.

Flavobacterium sp. 98 promotes root hair development and enhances plant drought tolerance via a novel signalling pathway, highlighting the role of plant–microorganism interactions for improving crop r...

Carl Woese in Jailbroken People, Appendix B of The Jailbroken Guide to the University: Carl Woese’s life resonates with me because it confirms something I...

Section Head - Integrative Computational Biosciences

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest

Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’

The finding that microbial communities are active under snow has changed the estimated global rates of biogeochemical processes beneath seasonal snow packs. We used microbiological and molecular techn...

The window to treat AI as a distant future issue is closing.

Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...

Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race'

The displacement of NSF employees from their headquarters opens a new front in the dismantling of American leadership in science.

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In this review, van Galen et al. use global soil metabarcoding databases to evaluate current estimates of the total number of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal species on Earth, outline the current state o...