When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

A close examination reveals the hidden structure and behavior of termites rarely seen by humans.

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

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

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...