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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the emerging field of extremophile bioprospecting and learn how these extraordinary microbes are unlocking new possibilities in biotechnology.

Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography. In this Review ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...