An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus by NICHOLAS ST. ...
Amber specimens indicate that fungus-farming ants have been cooperating with antimicrobial bacteria for tens of millions of years. […]
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A Tube of DNA? Not Pretty, but That’s Life by ...
Extracting and purifying DNA is routine now, but the results are not particularly aesthetic. Published: October 5, 2018 […]
Aurora: The Frog’s View
What does an aurora look like to a frog? “Awesome!” is the likely answer, suggested by this imaginative […]
Taming the Groundcherry: With Crispr, a Fussy Fruit Inches Toward ...
You may have never eaten a groundcherry, but with common gene-editing techniques it and other fruits may be […]
Hidden Stories of Chinese Migration and Culture Found in Giant ...
Scientists reported an assortment of findings resulting from a sweeping and novel analysis of data from the prenatal […]
How a Seafloor Blob Became Mexico’s ‘Black Gold’ by NATALIE ...
A frenzy for sea cucumbers, driven by demand in Asia, has brought their populations near collapse in the […]
The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
That’s not a young crescent Moon poised above the hills along the western horizon at sunset. It’s Venus […]
Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military ...
Critics warn that a Defense Department-funded food security project that is still in the lab could set off […]
Deep in Human DNA, a Gift From the Neanderthals by ...
The Neanderthals probably infected modern humans with viruses, perhaps even an ancient form of H.I.V. But our extinct […]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to a Woman for the ...
Frances H. Arnold was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work conducting the directed evolution […]