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In male swordtail fish, black melanoma splotches help lure females, suggesting that the deadly melanoma gene is conserved for its beneficial role in sexual selection...

An analysis of beehive wax samples and the bees themselves has found unprecedented levels of fluvalinate and coumaphos - pesticides used in the hives to combat varroa mites - as well as 70 other pesticides from external sources...

Chemical engineers at Caltech have used various plant genes to genetically modify common baker's yeast to produce large quantities of drugs, including antibiotics, nicotine, and even morphine...

Habitat destruction, overfishing, ocean warming, increased acidification and massive nutrient runoff are combining to turn Earth's oceans into simplistic ecosystems dominated by microbes, toxic algal blooms, jellyfish and disease...

British researchers have found that the contraceptive pill appears to disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves...