Archaeology: An archaeological project analyses informal commerce in the colonial Caribbean

Photo: Archaeological excavations were carried out in the uninhabited island of Klein Bonaire,...
Research: Widespread plants displace rarer species across habitats

Research: Widespread plants displace rarer species across habitats

It is currently estimated that, worldwide, two out of five plant species are threatened with extinction. Whilst this trend is clearly identifiable at the...
Researchers offer solutions to global phosphorus crisis that threatens food and water security

Researchers offer solutions to global phosphorus crisis that threatens food and water security

Phosphorus is an essential but often overlooked resource, which is vital for life on Earth and is extracted from phosphate rock for use in...
Study: New approach drives bacteria to produce potential antibiotic, antiparasitic compounds

Study: New approach drives bacteria to produce potential antibiotic, antiparasitic compounds

Researchers have developed a method to spur the production of new antibiotic or antiparasitic compounds hiding in the genomes of actinobacteria, which are the...

Biology: The propagation of admixture-derived evolutionary potential

Photo: Examples where hybridization-derived genetic variation can and cannot spread to different areas....

Biology: Setting a TRAP for pandemic-causing viruses

Photo: The TRAP display method "fishes " for synthetic proteins from among...
New fossil reveals ‘terror bird’ secrets

New fossil reveals ‘terror bird’ secrets

Dr. Federico Degrange from the Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA), CONICET, and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina and colleagues...

Study finds ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary history of carbon-fixing protein rubisco (TDnews)

Photo: A ribbon diagram (L) and molecular surface representation (R) of carbon-fixing form...

Biology: The world’s first successful identification and characterization of in vivo senescent cells

Photo: The research team generate a p16-Cre ERT2 - tdTomato mouse model to...

Biology: Crabs are key to ecology and economy in Oman

Photo: The most abundant crab in Barr Al Hikman is the sentinel crab...

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