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

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

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 ...

Researchers identified the new species of marine sponge using a technique that looks at both genes and structural ...

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

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

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

When Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced last week that he is directing the U.S. Food and ...

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

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