In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

In new research published today in the journal Science, famed genomicists J. Craig Venter and Clyde Hutchison show how they have managed to assemble a functional living organism with only the barest ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural ...

The blob is a fascinating organism, devoid of any nervous system. Yet, it exhibits a form of memory that allows it to learn not to ...