A group of researchers warned that ships stalled by the Iran war could spread invasive marine organisms when trade resumes.

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

"Pretty much everyone agrees that creating so-called 'mirror-life' is a very, very bad idea." Those are the words of Prof ...

Two organisms inhabiting a common environment can sometimes mutually influence each other, either benefiting or, in some ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if the kitchen sink was always sparkling clean and dish-free? Sure, but that’s not realistic when we’re ...

Periods of sustained warming can last for weeks to months at a time, with a distinct marine heatwave embedded between them ...

Most notably, August Weismann, a German biologist, was thought to have disproved the theory in 1904 with an experiment in ...

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

A sweeping review of more than 350 studies suggests that the protein boom may be overselling what many people actually need.

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 ...