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Danish and Welsh botanists sifted through 400 studies, field-tested seed mixes, and uncovered a lineup of native and exotic blooms that both thrill human eyes and lure bees and hoverflies in droves, offering ready-made recipes for transforming lawns, ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider's genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body--with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen--may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed DNA map shows this ancient creature evolved ...

Feeling jittery as the week kicks off isn't just a mood--it leaves a biochemical footprint. Researchers tracked thousands of older adults and found those who dread Mondays carry elevated cortisol in their hair for months, a stress echo that may help ...

Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still yield fruit--hinting at a delicious new weapon in . ...

Ambroxol, long used for coughs in Europe, stabilized symptoms and brain-damage markers in Parkinson's dementia patients over 12 months, whereas placebo patients worsened. Those with high-risk genes even saw cognitive gains, hinting at real disease .. ...

Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of nature-connectedness--especially when all three senses were ...

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals--from humans to marsupials--uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million years. By mapping gene activity in these cells, ...

Deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite--and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this effect doesn't rely on gases or compressors. Instead, . ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet--glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater--scientists have uncovered strange light-sensitive molecules in tiny microbes. These "cryorhodopsins" can respond to light in ways that might let researchers turn brain ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the brain draw powerful indirect connections. Disabling this circuit erased the links, hinting that similar pathways in humans ...