As summers get hotter and drier, it’s time to rethink what parks and gardens should look like.

Plants are more fascinating than you might imagine.

Abstract. Hypoxia is integral to the plant life cycle, occurring during both development and environmental stresses like flooding. The class I phytoglobins

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A ribonucleic acid-based regulatory network boosts tomato resistance to Phytophthora infestans by freeing a defense protein from suppression, strengthening

Biological processes are complex. Their behavior cannot be understood from the sum of their parts. Modeling, which allows for articulating hypotheses as equations and rules, has become indispensable for studying biological complexities. When written as computer code, mathematical models can be evaluated to test multiple potential outcomes. Modeling is useful for identifying essential system components and revealing new interactions. However, implementing models in biological research requires a solid understanding of computational and mathematical vocabulary, which typically requires formal training. Furthermore, communication barriers often hinder collaborations with computational modelers. To address this, we present an annotated glossary of terms associated with modeling gene regulatory networks. Aimed at biologists, we explain common computational modeling terms and frameworks using examples from published studies.

Nature - Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong.

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Single-nucleus chromatin and RNA sequencing identifies epigenetic chromatin domains that confer vulnerability to paediatric brain tumours such as ependymomas, providing insight into the development of such tumours despite ‘quiet’ genomes.

Land plants have evolved diverse regenerative responses as survival strategies. Recent functional analyses using model species from various lineages r…

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The nucleolus, a membrane-less organelle essential for ribosome biogenesis, adopts variable shapes across cell types and in response to environmental conditions, yet the mechanisms regulating its morp...

Here, the authors present aDNA from 49 grape pips spanning the Bronze Age to Medieval period in France and surrounding areas. They find evidence of long-distance exchange of domestic varieties through vegetative clones and one Medieval sample that is nearly identical to modern Pinot Noir.

The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.

The war centred on Iran is no longer a distant geopolitical story for Bangladesh. Its effects are already visible in fuel costs, pressure on electricity supply, freight disruption, and concerns over e...

Soil microbes recycle nutrients, but their global nutrient use efficiency is poorly understood. This study finds microbial nitrogen-use efficiency is nearly twice phosphorus-use efficiency, driven by ...

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to…

Kleptoplasty, the transient integration of foreign organelles, could illuminate organellogenesis. Here, using the flagellate, Rapaza viridis, the authors show that host nuclear proteins are imported i...

Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.

Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...

Nature - The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

Global crop productivity faces a significant threat from climate change-induced drought stress (DS), which is vital for sustainable agriculture and gl…

Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.