An agricultural staple for enhancing crop growth? Pesticides. Unfortunately, while these chemicals do help keep pests that would otherwise destroy crops away, they come with a significant limitation: ...

A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...

Woolly mammoths may have gone extinct because of a rather less dramatic reason than some other theories—stuffy noses from allergies. Newsweek spoke to an author of the study for more information.

The cerambycid beetle family, with over 35,000 species worldwide, exhibits a diverse array of chemically mediated behaviours that are central to mating, aggregation, and host plant localisation.