Researchers have identified a new Alzheimer’s target and created an experimental compound that blocks a damaging process ...

Scientists have discovered a protein in mosses that may have enabled the first plants to grow upward on dry land.

Nestle SA Chief Executive Officer Philipp Navratil warned Swiss citizens not to take its business-friendly environment for ...

In the 19th century, around 15,000 Swiss immigrants settled in southern Brazil. They were progressively absorbed German ...

Wildlife ‌experts found eight new species of dragonfly, three unknown grasshoppers and some 60 new butterflies and moths in ...

An international team of researchers argue that special fungi could be used to convert the Martian regolith into ...

Have you ever eaten a green potato, or a bunch of rhubarb leaves? Hopefully not, because these two plant parts can be toxic to humans. While they may seem edible, they contain chemicals that can make ...

A chance photo upload from remote Queensland has led scientists to a plant that had been missing from the wild for nearly 60 years — and it's a pretty remarkable reminder that ordinary people with a ...

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Researchers in Germany and Spain have developed a fast vacuum coating process capable of producing perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with efficiencies of up to 24.3 percent in just 10 minutes. The ...

In a silent war that has raged for millions of years, plants have evolved a sophisticated chemical arsenal to fight back against invading pathogens. Now, a team of researchers from Peking University ...

Plants have no calendar or brain, yet they can sense the arrival of spring through photoperiodism – their ability to measure day and night length. In many perennial plants, bud break is also strongly ...