Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

The 2008 film Wall-E depicted Earth as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with nothing on it but the abandoned remnants of human ...

Uncover the truth about invasive species. New research questions long-held beliefs about their role in ecosystems and ...

And most of all, their digestive system and their teeth can render invasive plant seeds unviable. So, unlike other animals, ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

A team of researchers from the Bhatnagar Lab at Boston University recently published a paper in Nature Cities that studied the difference in microbial communities of street trees and non-urban forest ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

The primary question driving research at the MPI-CBG since its inception has been how cells form tissues. Discover more here ...

In today’s paved-over world, rain rarely gets the chance to sink into the soil. More often, it hurries over roofs, driveways, and concrete paths, dragging oil, dirt, and debris along the way before ...

An ecosystem is a web of interactions between many different organisms, all adapted to live in harmony with each other — or sworn enemies constantly evolving and adapting to outwit the other.

Blythe Sharman discusses the challenges of traditional conservation strategies in regard to native and non-native species. By addressing our ever-changing climate, this article encompasses the ...