As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate professor Shahid Siddique, Department of Entomology and Nematology, have ...

The farm experts at Gold Shaw Farm highlight how one goose proved reproduction matters on the farm. Michigan Couple Faces Major Charges Over Undocumented Workers Eddie Murphy reveals the 3 massive ...

From sonic tomographies to global biodiversity negotiations, this journey through research, resilience, and connection reveals how small organisms, death and decay bring about new life Valerie Lenis A ...

Everything in life is about sex and money. And now that I have your attention, let me explain. That phrase was one that I often used when presenting key concepts to my biology and marine science ...

It’s very easy to lose a single photon. That’s why it’s so impressive that photosynthetic systems rarely do. In contrast to photovoltaic cells, which currently top out at around 30 percent efficiency, ...

Eva Jablonka is a professor emerita at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation ...

A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This challenges long-held beliefs and raises questions about their reproductive ...

Microorganisms — bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms — may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not more, than genetic mutations, creating new lineages and even new species ...