Antimicrobial and antifungal resistance, which describe the ability of bacteria and other pathogens to resist the effects of drugs to which they were once sensitive, is a major public health problem ...

After companies suspended copper mining at the Berkeley Pit outside of Butte, Mont., in 1983, runoff and groundwater collected in the pit and created a lake. Oxidized rock exposed by mining acidified ...

A compound isolated from a fungus growing on the roots of a flowering plant in Morocco shows promise as a powerful opponent of aggressive triple negative breast cancer, scientists say. They have early ...

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Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists ...