Sequencing a high-quality bread wheat genome facilitates the identification of a gene that confers stripe rust resistance and may lead to improved crop resilience.

Unmanned aerial vehicles show promise for monitoring coastal water flows over large areas.

Insight into the function of the nucleocapsid protein could help develop drugs that reduce coronavirus impact.

A solar-driven system to generate electricity and produce water for crops in arid areas may help a decentralized approach to food, water and energy security.

A novel plant-breeding strategy is targeting crop yield, nutritional value and stress tolerance, all through the expression of one gene.

Tiny light-emitting probes give researchers a better option for noninvasive imaging of living tissue.

Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.

An interactive platform helps users visualize where SARS-CoV-2 mutations start, how wide they spread and how infectious they are.

Providing corals with cocktails of natural probiotics could enhance their tolerance to stress and reduce mortality in coral bleaching events.

A low-cost diagnostic tool can detect a range of viruses without the need for expensive materials or facilities.

A mutational change of an enzyme’s dynamics increases its activity on a chromatin histone, ultimately causing a common lung cancer.

Researchers show how bacteria have adapted a sensing mechanism that allows them to live in different environments.

Coating crop seeds with bacteria found on a desert shrub boosts yields in hot fields.

A printable hydrogel made of ultrashort peptides could help shape cells into viable tissues.

For the sake of marine life, international collaboration is required to reduce undersea sounds.

National lockdowns have provided a unique opportunity to assess the effects of human activity on wildlife, which could translate into new attitudes and better policies.

Heat stress disrupts the physiological processes of corals prior to clear signs of bleaching, with implications for adaptation strategies for coral reefs in a warming climate.

New method can simultaneously diagnose cases, track variants and detect co-infections.

Coral ancestors had the genetic toolkit to make skeletal structures and only took simple evolutionary steps to begin building reefs.

The weird and wonderful genome of dinoflagellates looks nothing like other eukaryotic genomes.