A 20-year-old archive of water samples from Lake Mendota in Madison contributed to a “game-changing” study at The University ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each ...

Lunch bags have come a long way from simple paper sacks and basic insulated totes. As technology continues to revolutionize ...

Dermatologists often talk about the link between gut health and the skin, but it was a can of worms I could never quite bring ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean - dubbed "The Hoff Crab" when it was discovered in 2010 - is the first species in its family to show ...

I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a ...

A Republican lawmaker made an unusual suggestion during a public hearing Thursday on a bill that could lead to a fart tax on cows.

They live on what they find: game, honey, and plants, including tubers, berries, and baobab fruit. Meat has played a starring role in the evolution ... Our gut bacteria digest a nutrient in ...

The fluffy white fungus, similar to the zombie-ant fungus that inspired the "The Last of Us" video game and TV series ... in the journal Fungal Systematics and Evolution. The G. attenboroughii found ...

Biologists converted gut bacteria into miniature protein factories that manufacture and release a sustained flow of targeted proteins inside the lower intestines. This technique solves one of the ...