An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

What if life didn’t require oxygen? For centuries, we've operated under the assumption that oxygen is an essential part of ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

A team of scientists from Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Marburg and Stockholm University have elucidated an ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Patagonia’s ‘living rocks’ hold ancient bacterial biofilms, offering insights into early life and potential bioengineering ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a process during which the energy-rich molecule ATP is produced. Cells require ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...