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Diversity in many biological communities is a sign of an ecosystem in balance. When one species dominates, the entire system can go haywire.

Researchers have shown why intense, pure red colours in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural colour that produces bright blue and green hues.

When humans see their children about to eat something they oughtn’t, we can simply tell them, “Don’t eat that. It’ll make you sick.”

Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by over two-thirds in less than half a century.

A new bacterial molecule with the unsavory tendency to track down and kill others of its own kind has been discovered in the human microbiome by researchers at Princeton’s Department of Chemistry.