Trader Joe's has a cheese on offer that's made with living organisms in the rind. Their work actually enhances the cheese's ...

Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for ...

This cool discovery in the ruins of Chernobyl is now helping to understand how life on Earth copes with radiation, and how ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a universal rule that applies to microbial growth. A research group that includes a ...

Astroturf and artificial grass has become increasingly popular among UK homeowners - especially those with dogs.

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

What is ecology? The word “ecology” was proposed by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866. It means the study of the ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...