Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When frozen ground thaws or coastal sections erode, this carbon can enter the sea, where microorganisms can break it down and ...

Health officials explain how Hampton Roads beaches are tested for bacteria, why swim advisories happen, and what swimmers ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, ...

The Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District's grant-funded initiative helps reduce the amount of pollution ...

Meet the chicken kidney sponge, a true ecosystem engineer that could use its filter-feeding power to clean the degraded ...

The team modeled the fundamental tradeoff between decision accuracy and the bioenergetic cost of maintaining memory systems. Their findings reveal that when resources are extremely limited, biological ...

Lab-designed cells could someday be used in medicine, environmental cleanup, or manufacturing. Imagine spraying biosensing cells on a wall to test for hidden mold or swallowing a pill full of cells ...

NASA scientists made a groundbreaking discovery deep inside Alaskan permafrost. They defrosted 32,000-year-old bacteria ...

Unfortunately, screwworms are not the only organism drawn to the odor. A closely related, less dangerous, and more common ...

Many feared the unusual drainage resembled a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, a rare condition in which the protective fluid ...

Beyond the nucleus, no other organelle in eukaryotic cells captures the public's imagination quite like mitochondria: They are the engines of cellular energy production; they possess their own DNA, ...

A flesh-eating fly that the United States stamped out decades ago is back, and Texas has confirmed its return for the first time in more than 50 years. Scientists are responding w ...