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Researchers have engineered a novel 3D human cellular model that mimics the intricate interactions between brain cells and these immune invaders.

Scientists hope that identifying an essential but formerly unknown stage in the fungal takeover of rice cells can accelerate the treatment or prevention of rice blast disease, which ruins up to 30% of global yields each year.

A new study has examined how T cells of the immune system are affected by weightlessness. The results could explain why astronauts’ T cells become less active and less effective at fighting infection.

The risk of fatal heatwaves has risen sharply over the past 20 years. In the future, such extreme weather will become more frequent and heat-​related excess mortality will increase. Europe will be particularly affected, as researchers show.

According to researchers, micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soil could contribute to antibiotic resistant bacteria with a ready route into our food supply.

Fresh research suggests that parks do indeed enhance bird diversity inside their borders. Large parks also support higher diversity of both birds and mammals in nearby unprotected areas.<br /><br />

Researchers publish a new report in the journal <i>New Phytologist</i> that expands science’s understanding of natural selection in the face of another evolutionary mechanism called genetic constraint.

Researchers have uncovered how neuron densities are distributed across and within cortical areas in the mammalian brain. They have unveiled a fundamental organizational principle of cortical cytoarchitecture.

Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted used-coffee grounds, to give the drink-additive a “double shot” at life and reduce waste going to landfills.

New research suggests the effects of marine heatwaves, caused by climate change, on corals and their coevolving partners are worse than previously thought.