Scientists at the University of Houston may have taken a big step toward solving one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. They’ve engineered sheets of bacterial cellulose (essentially ...

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A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

Gut health is all the rage — but what actually is it, and why does it have so much bearing on our overall health?

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...