Life

  1. Life

    Weeds increasingly immune to herbicides

    Agricultural scientists warn that crop yields could drop as a result of emerging resistance.

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  2. Life

    Marine microbes fritter away jelly bonus

    Bacterial feasts during jellyfish blooms drain valuable carbon out of the food web.

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  3. Life

    Genes & Cells

    European scientists object to genetic testing, plus triggers for Alzheimer’s and asthma in this week’s news.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

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  5. Genetics

    Flexible DNA computer finds square roots

    Scientists design a digital circuit made of molecules that may be able to crunch a wider variety of complex math problems than previous versions.

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  6. Life

    Holding back evolution

    Gene mutations that are beneficial on their own combine to slow down progress, new bacterial experiments show.

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  7. Life

    Go deep, small worm

    A discovery in a South African mine suggests life can thrive far below the surface.

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  8. Life

    Life

    Ancient weirdos roamed the seas longer than thought, plus clever turtle embryos and da Vinci patterns in trees in this week’s news.

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  9. Life

    Fish ignore alarming noises in acidifying seawater

    Something about changing ocean chemistry could make young clownfish behave oddly around normally alarming sounds.

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  10. Life

    Mellow corals beat the heat

    Species that overreact to distress signals from algae are more likely to succumb to warming.

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  11. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.

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  12. Life

    Life

    A look at killer dolphins, plus hibernating plankton, growing mammal brains and more in this week’s news.

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