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By Milliam Murigi As climate change tightens its grip on Kenya’s food system, a new report shows that the country is turning ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has harnessed citywide genetic data and ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Genetically Modified (GM) and Genome-Edited (GE) plants are opening exciting new possibilities for building sustainable agriculture. These technologies ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified issues with most genomic sequence data for the Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...