Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits of free-living populations? This multi-decade study of the evolution of clutch size in populations of great tits before, duri...

Abstract. C4 photosynthesis has emerged in various plant lineages as an adaptive response to abiotic stress, as it allows for higher photosynthetic efficie

Climate-of-origin of Themeda triandra populations used in this study.

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together...

August was world’s joint hottest month on record – scientists.

Alternative polyadenylation (APA) tunes mRNA tail length. Profiling a rice pan-genome population under normal and salt conditions revealed the population-level APA landscape and the 3′aQTL map. It do...

Leaf water relations are partially coordinated with the leaf economics spectrum, enabling multidimensional plant functional strategies across forest types.

Gene-editing techniques could soon allow researchers to replace entire genes and engineer complex cellular circuits — if the systems can be delivered safely into cells.

We can explain solids, liquids, and gases — but how nonliving matter self-assembles into life remains one of science’s great mysteries.

The escalating frequency and intensity of recent droughts threaten global crop production and food security. Although drought priming is crucial for plant drought resilience, the mechanisms imparting....

Climate change-driven combined abiotic stresses threaten crop health and productivity. We propose leveraging panomics and advanced breeding tools to get insights into how plants manage combined abioti...

Ancient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems

Nature - A boron phase prepared under pressure can be stretched.

Naturally occurring bacteria in rice roots could help reduce the reliance on chemical fertilizers for rice cultivation, paving the way for sustainable agriculture.

The cryogenic electron microscopy structure of the NUT/HSL3–SCREW2/CTNIP4–BAK1 complex reveals a cross-ribbon peptide conformation recognized by a glycan-formed pocket on NUT, with implications for st...

A campaign to map and sample the bridge could help reconstruct ancient animal migrations

Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site

Incendiamoeba cascadensis may survive in volcanic lakes thanks to a static blanket that shields its proteins from the heat

A gate is an object used to limit and control passage. Previous uses of the term “gate-keeping” as a metaphor align closely with the concrete functioning of a gate. The metaphor refers either to the e...

Researchers have teamed up with Belgian citizens to conduct a mass match-making experiment between cold-tolerant soybeans and rhizobia.

Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...

The first arm bone fragment from these mysterious human relatives was found near cutting instruments and animal remains in southwestern China