Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a rapidly growing concern at the intersection of environmental microbiology and ...

Fungi are different from other organisms. They are made of eukaryotic cells, which are also found in plants and animals, but they are not easily grouped in with either of those things, and they are ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

As the pandemic has progressed, different variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen, become dominant, and then been surpassed by a new variant. Then Omicron came along, and this highly infectious variant ...

It's called Metarhizium, and it's a parasitic fungus that lures insects to their death with an odorous compound called ...

In fact, it's happened so often that there's a scientific term for it: carcinization. If you close your eyes and think of a crab, you might picture a round, flat body. Big front claws and multiple ...

The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer's disease have been preserved—and even slightly increased—across ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...