Less than 10% of plastics are recycled. A Purdue-led team, backed by NSF, is creating durable bioplastics from raw materials ...

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan dismissed speculation about his potential candidacy for BJP president, ...

5 latest biotechnology breakthroughs, from genome sequencing to microbiome manipulation, revolutionizing medicine, ...

In an unprecedented discovery, scientists have reconstructed the complete human genome of a Stone Age woman from a 5,700-year ...

A genetic study shows hunter-gatherers and farmers coexisted across Europe, challenging earlier views of a rapid agricultural ...

Meet some of the wildest animal hybrids. Which occur naturally, which are found only in zoos, and which come straight out of the science lab?

Scientists are unlocking the secrets of cocoa fermentation by designing microbial communities that can recreate the flavors ...

Researchers demonstrate the active role methyl groups play in silencing genes, demonstrating the therapeutic potential of ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, the Technical Advisor to the Minister for the Interior, has called for heavy ...

A trio of University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have helped an international team locate an area of corn DNA responsible ...