For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.

As dawn broke, fisherman Viktor Kocaj hauled his net on board his battered skiff, but after a whole night in the Adriatic, ...

Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

The advance was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the UC San Diego Materials ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop ...

Discover how your stress response is actually working for you—and how imagination can help you adapt, even when the world ...

He argued that two key processes must take place in every living organism. First, it has to build and maintain its body; that is, it needs a metabolism.

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...