DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Of the 130-plus types of coffee beans out there, only four are commonly used or commercially grown, and between those four, ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East ...

The authors identify artificial intelligence as a turning point for food safety research. High-throughput sequencing, ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Previous research on the effect of wolves on the food web has been criticized, raising questions about the predator’s role in ...

Researchers have shown that near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy of leaves can reliably reveal a fruit’s ripeness without ...

Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained ...

Traditional rule-based systems, once sufficient for detecting simple patterns of fraud, have been overwhelmed by the scale, ...

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will welcome returning guests and new visitors alike with a plethora of exciting, ...

I watched in horror as a terrible storm in the Mediterranean dashed a ship against a rocky coast, forcing its crew and ...