Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Research suggests that one auto-antibody in particular may lead to harmful inflammation in long COVID patients. These antibodies attack the body's own proteins and are a hallmark of many autoimmune ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

This common item is responsible for 25% of all microplastic pollution — and it's worse than we thought. A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in human urine. The study ...

Recent years have seen growing scrutiny and debate around processed foods, but researchers have struggled to pin down what aspects of food processing are most relevant to health. Now, scientists have ...

Researchers from the China Electric Power Research Institute have outlined a new classification of weather types based on abnormal PV output events and different weather types and, based on this new ...

The article introduces the "Three Kingdom (3K) system" as a novel, overarching hierarchical classification framework for all astronomical objects, addressing the current lack of a universal ...

Last year, researchers at Michigan State discovered two new truffle species. The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied by ...