Stroll through ancient churchyards in England, and you’ll likely see yew trees with bright green leaves and stunning ruby red fruits guarding the graves. These coniferous trees are known in European ...
A deadly fungus found in ancient tombs could make for a promising anticancer drug. Snake venom could be turned into lifesaving antibiotics. And extracts from common trees hold promise as therapies for ...
Life on Earth relies upon an astonishingly short list of elements. Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen compose the essential ...
To understand how organisms are related, researchers use molecular information to construct phylogenetic trees. Most of the time, scientists use thousands of protein-coding sequences to determine ...
Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...
Scientists have decoded the genetic machinery behind the golden petals of Camellia nitidissima and successfully transferred this trait into tomato plants to enhance their nutritional value. By ...