Microorganisms—in particular bacteria—are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major ...

Stable isotope methods play a key role in reconstructing important issues such as ancient human diet, migration, the origin and domestication of plants and ...

There are an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 proteins at work in cells, where they carry out numerable functions, says computational molecular biologist Roman Sloutsky at the University of Massachusetts ...

One angle scientists have taken to explore how protein functions arise is to trace family evolution and relatedness, which is difficult. Researchers now propose an unusual, new and more accurate way ...

We are not lacking deep lamentations and grand plans for the future of journalism (clever commentary is abundant as well). New additions to this canon appear weekly, and many have a reactionary bent ...

Self-healing of matter and light beams have long been fascinating phenomena in both basic and applied research, also providing inspiration to writers of science fiction. In matter, self-healing is ...

The recent meeting in Berlin on the reconstruction of Ukraine raises issues about what Ukraine will look like when and after the war ends. The Berlin conference, a follow-up to a July Ukraine Recovery ...