A new study reveals that close social relationships can drive the transfer of gut microbes, independent of shared surroundings. Living with friends or family may subtly influence your gut bacteria, ...

Fish living downstream of wastewater treatment plants are accumulating antidepressants, opioids and other drugs of abuse in ...

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Parasitic wasps of the genus Trichogramma are among the smallest insects in the world—yet they play an important role in ...

As AI becomes further incorporated into the lab environment, it is critical that those using it implement safe and compliant behaviours.

Multiple scientists tied to U.S. military and defense research have disappeared or died, prompting questions about whether a ...

The highly competitive national award recognizes outstanding undergraduates pursuing research careers in science, mathematics ...

A popular fertilizer that helps feed most of the world can degrade nearly half of all freshwater bodies on the Canadian ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...

We need investment in precision medicine technologies to start programming cancer against itself, writes Cyriac Roeding.

Fish living downstream of wastewater treatment plants are accumulating antidepressants, opioids and other drugs of abuse in ...