For a long time, the soil was the domain of chemistry and physics. This only changed forty years ago. Today, the soil has ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

A multiyear collaboration yields high-performing teff lines, offering hope for water-stressed farmers and advancing research on this underutilized crop ...

Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California ...

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

In the tropical rainforests of Fiji, a genus of unusual plants has developed a remarkably simple but highly effective way to prevent ...

Wild honeybees in Southern California are devouring the food supplies of native pollinators — posing a potential threat to the region’s natural ecosystems, a new study has found. These feral ...

Non-native honeybees are so effective at pollinating, they pose a significant threat to native California bees and other ...

When I attended her biocontrol presentation titled “Rethinking Rose Pest Management,” I discovered that, apparently, true ...