It’s 5am when we crawl out of our tents. The catbirds are calling and the night sky is fading to dawn, as we prepare to head ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion years. Using cutting‑edge science and immersive visu ...

Despite their name, booklice are not actually lice, and they have nothing to do with human or pet infestations. Booklice, ...

Mutualistic partnerships between species abound across nature-but it's a tricky dance to make sure both parties keep pulling their weight ...

Some microorganisms that hold great promise for research have long lain dormant in historical collections. But only through ...

Scientists and farmers are now seeking to stop the spread of a farm-raised golden oysters mushrooms into the wild.

As weather patterns shift, so do the organisms that thrive in these environments, including mosquitoes, viruses, bacteria and fungi ...

Bacteria may offer an unexpected way to immobilize uranium in contaminated water. Uranium contamination is difficult to ...

Pando, a Utah aspen grove, is the world's largest living organism by weight. This clonal colony consists of genetically ...

Researchers were unafraid to get their hands "dirty" in an ambitious bid to restore WA's largest island to its pre-colonial ...

For Nigerian open-field farmers, the arrival of the rainy season is a double-edged sword. While it provides much-needed water, the accompanying high humidity and prolonged moisture create a playground ...

A team from the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has described a new bacterial genus and named it after Prof. Axel Brakhage, the scientific ...