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Colorized scanning electron microscope image of excrement shows a pale green piece of plant fiber covered by tiny microbes colored teal, purple, red, green, brown and more.

The growing link between microbes, mood and mental health

New research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome. The best way to do that right now is not through pills and supplements, but better food.

Five yellow-and-black-striped insects with long antennae are walking over a piece of very battered-looking leaf.

Food & Environment

Natural pest control: Plants enlist their enemies’ enemies

These stealthy survival tactics could teach us how to curb the widespread use of chemical pesticides in agriculture. But first, researchers must learn how seemingly helpless flora deploy this masterful strategy.

Three people wearing gloves, goggles and full-body protective clothing take samples from a rodent. One of them holds the animal while another takes the specimen. A third stands at the side, holding small tubes in which the samples will be placed.

Health & Disease

Infectious disease: Making — and breaking — the animal connection

We know pathogens from other species can endanger us. Scientists are better equipped than ever to do something about it, but political buy-in is crucial.

Photograph of the deck of a large commercial fishing vessel. Fish are falling from a massive net and piling on the deck floor, as fishermen look on.

Food & Environment

The human hand in fish evolution

Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive

Photograph of a row of skeletons in a trench.

Health & Disease

Profiling the perpetrators of past plagues

The ancient pathogens in old graves are as dead as the people they once infected. Still, they tell a vivid tale.

Close-up photograph of a pure California tiger salamander (right) and a hybrid between the California species and the non-native barred tiger salamander (left). Though the two are clearly different in this photograph, they are not always as easy to tell apart.

A salamander’s dangerous liaisons

The giant genomes of these struggling amphibians tell a story of outsider invasions, assault by disease and cross-species sex. A geneticist explains.

A neanderthal tooth and replica of a crown.

The truth in baby teeth

Fossilized remains of children have a lot to tell us about their short lives

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