Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

Want beautiful flowers in early spring? Here's everything you need to know to grow daffodils, including how to water and fertilise, and how to plant them.

Microplastics are widely recognized as pollutants in oceans and waterways, but scientists are increasingly discovering that ...

If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

The genomes of phages - viruses that infect bacteria - are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins ...

The Tijuana River in San Diego has sickened surfers, swimmers and Navy SEALS for decades. A new report explores ways to clean ...