Poison frogs appear to have built their chemical defenses gradually: related frogs store low to moderate levels of ...

Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

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Court-ordered restorations of federally censored public health websites are being subverted by use of disclaimers that ...

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Plants produce an extraordinary array of phytochemicals that are essential for their survival, ecological interactions, and ...

Most people think of large acreage when they think about permaculture, but its principles can be just as successful in small ...

Fermeate uses optogenetics—precise control of gene expression with light—to turbocharge productivity in bioreactors, with ...

A new sensor, designed for detecting pollutants, outperforms existing methods by orders of magnitude in many respects.

That’s equivalent to the weight of about 1,000 elephants, and many of those chemicals are toxic to corals. Some researchers ...

How chemists are using light, enzymes and mechanical force to access higher‑energy stereoisomers without rebuilding a ...