These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.

The packaging aims to maintain the quality and appearance of dragon fruit during shipping from Ecuador to the US and Europe.

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths ...

Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like ...