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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

30 March 2018

Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine
The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

29 March 2018

A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near-extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

27 March 2018

Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated – centuries before the arrival of Europeans

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