The process of industrialization, globalization and urbanization—spreading out from urban centers into the countryside—is one ...

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released by microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon on a global scale is ...

A research group led by Prof. Yang Liangbao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Vanilla is vital to the livelihoods of farmers in Madagascar, where the globally popular dessert ingredient is the country's ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Epoxy resins are coatings and adhesives used in a broad range of familiar applications, such as construction, engineering and ...

Imagine one morning, you are deciding whether to drive to work or catch the train. Eventually, you decide to drive. On your ...

A study of fruit flies shows some species are highly susceptible to a wide range of viruses. The paper, published in the ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

A new review has documented the remarkable journey of Australia's most critically endangered marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...