Though cocoa prices on the financial markets have soared, the rise is benefiting cocoa growers, bean processors, speculators and chocolatiers in...

How wheat and buckwheat respond to drought situations with high CO2 and high temperatures was investigated in the Department of Plant Biology and...

Giant spiky cacti tower over farmer Alcides Peixinho Nascimento, 70, one of the residents of Brazil's unique Caatinga biome who is on a mission to...

Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown. The...

Researchers from the Universidade Federal do Pará have conducted a thorough study on a bird species. Remarkably, what scientists previously believed...

Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species

Scientists have discovered a new way that proteins from the brain can trigger migraines. This finding could lead to the development of improved...

An international team of scientists from China, Denmark and other countries has found bones and tools from Denisovans, mysterious and little-studied...

Scion has launched a new interactive learning app designed to empower rangatahi (young people) and communities with knowledge about myrtle rust....

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered that fish can pass on maternal immunity to their larvae, just as mammals do...