Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's ...

Genes required for chromosomal small RNA are missing in certain duckweed species. This may explain the emergence of vigorous inter-species hybrids with three, rather than two, copies of each ...

No matter where you live in the country, April can be one of the best months of the year to catch bass.

A fish allergy, as opposed to a shellfish allergy, is one in which your immune system reacts abnormally to a finned fish such as tuna, halibut, or salmon. It is a somewhat less common form of food ...

A COMMUNITY group has issued a warning after reports of people dumping frogs and frogspawn into a public pond.

Comparing the flagship sonar products of just a generation ago to today’s best fish finders is like placing a Model T side-by-side with a modern sports car. The basic concept is the same, but the user ...

Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of the duckweed family, uses an understudied epigenetic mechanism to mark old transposons without DNA methylation. This finding was published in a new ...

A staggering 62 per cent of seafood eaten in Australia is imported, prompting the CSIRO to embark on an ambitious project to find a new variety of native white-flesh fish that can be farmed ...

It's all a very sweet message. But, as many scientists and anglerfish aficionados online have pointed out, the likely reasons this little fish went to the surface are far less romantic than a ...