A new laboratory experiment is adding weight to one of science’s strangest possibilities: that life may travel between planets. Researchers have been testing whether microscopic organisms could ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Western mosquitofish, pictured here, are known as the "plague minnow" due to their aggressive impact on native habitats when introduced. For decades, ecologists have known that how a species looks or ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving ...

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters ...

NORTH FORK, CA - All organisms are designed to move, including humans. Our sedentary lifestyle of the last 100 years is unprecedented, and we are paying a high ...

A recent study from the University of Cologne has revealed that microscopic soil worms called nematodes form surprisingly ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.