Light-responsive building blocks provide organic membranes with light-controlled permeability and selectivity.

A safer technique reveals that corals take up seawater pollutants both directly and indirectly.

Efficient greenhouse complexes that will grow crops using the resources available on desert coasts could improve food security for millions.

Models based on images from unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites can help farmers to monitor the health of individual trees.

Giant clams manipulate light to assist their symbiotic partner.

An assay for imaging the physical interactions between multiple cell populations could help cancer research and treatment assessment.

More energy-efficient wastewater treatment may be possible by harnessing anammox bacteria’s surprising ability to "breathe" solid-state matter.

Studies of plankton communities in Red Sea waters provide insights into seasonal variations and dominant control mechanisms.

A water-stable dopant enhances and stabilizes the performance of electron-transporting organic electrochemical transistors.

Discovery of a malaria parasite’s internal clock could lead to new treatment strategies

Structural details of an enzyme complex shed light on DNA replication.

A study of marine Halobates species highlights how their waterproofing techniques, size and acceleration capability helped them colonize the ocean.

Polymers that absorb water from the atmosphere can make it easier to run photovoltaic devices in hot climates.

Reef fish species uniquely respond to climate change, with some more vulnerable than others.

Copper ions could play a key role when peptide folding goes wrong and leads to harmful aggregates.

A protein hijacked from a bacterial pathogen helps to facilitate more precise genome editing in plants.

The conversion of skin cells into brain cells relies on proper insertion of L1 elements.

A framework that helps marine scientists select localized carbon dioxide levels for experiments aims to improve robustness in global warming studies.

E-selectin is grown in silkworms for the first time, revealing new aspects of its binding dynamics.

A Cas protein that cleaves viral RNA has been harnessed in a CRISPR/Cas system to destroy prolific viral infections in crop plants.