The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

Scientists and entrepreneurs have big goals for tiny organisms, from feeding people in war zones to curbing climate impacts.

Sedimentary deposits containing well-preserved diatom cells record a lake’s environmental changes. Studying them can help us ...

By studying them, we’re not just learning about their world; we’re finding ways to make our own world more sustainable," Prof ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

The Neosho egg producer Opal Foods is destroying a flock of about 1,585,000 chickens and the Newton County Health Department is monitoring about 30 Opal Foods employees ...

Metabolism, Molecular Engineering of Microalgae and Applications, Laboratory Biology of Organisms, Stress, Health and Environment, IUML – FR 3473 CNRS, Le Mans University, Le Mans, France Global ...