Avian influenza viruses are continuing to circulate widely in the environments where humans and poultry intersect in China, even as…

In a finding that challenges the long-standing assumption that viruses are simply burdens to their hosts, researchers in China and…

Petroleum refinery sludge is one of the least hospitable environments on Earth—a toxic cocktail of hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and chemical…

In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers…

Scientists in China have assembled, for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome of Asparagus cochinchinensis, a medicinal herb cherished…

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, but its flooded paddies come with a hidden atmospheric cost: waterlogged soils trap…

In the transitional hills where the Mediterranean climate of Türkiye’s southern coast gradually yields to the harsher continental conditions of…

Every ton of cement produced releases roughly as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the chemical reaction it carries…

Pulmonary thromboembolism, a condition in which a blood clot lodges in the pulmonary artery or its branches and blocks blood…