It spans miles, weighs hundreds of tons, and you’ve probably stepped on it without knowing. The world’s biggest organism doesn’t look big at all. Judge Delivers Final Blow to Trump Case Dozens of ...

Under a cathedral of leaves, I pitched my hammock inside the world’s tallest living organism - a coast redwood older than many empires. Night fell, howling winds echoed, and I realized nature’s ...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

By Vir Singh Life on the planet is rooted in the soil. The soil is not just the uppermost mantle of our planet’s land, it is the largest terrestrial ecosystem and a remarkable habitat ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...