You crest a hill in the Scottish Highlands and see a valley spread out before you. Instead of near barren heather mores, close cropped by sheep, a forest of young growth oak and beech offers shelter to native bluebells and wood sorel. Among the boughs of the trees, you see...
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At the peak of the last Ice Age, two species competed for prey across Eurasia. Both were highly intelligent pack hunters, capable of bringing down animals much larger than themselves through teamwork. Humans and wolves (Canis lupus) held overlapping territories and exploited the same resources – a situation which should...
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A team at the James Hutton Institute, a Scottish centre for crop research, has captured the corkscrew motion of roots growing through soil. This advance in our understanding of plant growth is possible thanks to a new imaging technology: transparent soil. Dr. Adalvan Martins led the work in the research...
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Daire Carroll reports on new research on the smallest possible enzyme that could shed light on the origin of life and have implications for biotechnology.
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Trials, using viruses to eliminate bacterial infections linked to alcoholic hepatitis, show the hints of a new wave of treatments for the age of antibiotic resistance. The research also has much wider implications for the targeted control and manipulation of the gut microbiome.
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