A study of six hectares of Chinese transition-zone forest finds that ectomycorrhizal tree dominance strongly predicts higher ...

Microorganisms utilize plant fibers to create target substances. To what extent can this process be integrated, and how can ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have discovered that a plant receptor called CHIP13 acts as a molecular measuring tape, ...

Global Biomanufacturing WeeklyPeriod: 2025-08-31 (Sun) – 2025-09-06 (Sat)This week, we cover the combination of electricity ...

Chitin, a chain of repeating sugar molecules, is the main building block of fungal cell walls. When fungi grow or are broken ...

In bark-removed treatments, fungal community assembly was dominated by turnover over time. In contrast, bark presence shifted assembly toward nestedness at advanced decay stages. This suggests a ...

Episode 265: College is often judged by a familiar set of measures: tuition, debt, graduation rates, job placement and future earnings. But what if some of its most important benefits are harder to ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few. On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables ...

Nearly 1,000 readers sent us their questions about artificial intelligence, its potential and its potential risks. By Cade Metz Dylan Freedman and K. R. Callaway Artificial intelligence is developing ...

The preferred solution gives maximum gridded depths of 10,926 m, 10,912 m, and 10,927 m in the western, central, and eastern basins, respectively. Reprocessing the same acoustic data using five ...

This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. Humans may be the only creatures ...