When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Communication begins long before children learn to speak. Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan have now uncovered how early brain activity helps build developing ...

In a silent war that has raged for millions of years, plants have evolved a sophisticated chemical arsenal to fight back ...

The immune system exhibits remarkable plasticity, enabling dynamic responses to environmental cues while maintaining tissue homeostasis. Emerging evidence ...

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

Plants in their natural environments rarely face a single type of stress. Instead, they experience overlapping or sequential abiotic stresses—such as ...