What started out as a great idea and an attempt to save the environment ended in destruction. The shipping industry is not ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Brine pools, extremely salty, oxygen-free underwater lakes, are lethal to most marine life but teem with resilient microbes.

BP is cutting back on energy transition projects. Divestments are helping to reduce net debt. The company's financial outlook ...

A new study finds that people whose gut microbiomes produce a lot of methane are able to unlock extra energy from a ...

Asking ‘what is life?’ is a good way to start arguments in science. As a recent informal poll suggests, no two individuals ...

In May 2023, experiments were conducted on the cultivation of S. rugosoannulata in mulch in an edible mushroom greenhouse in Xiaodian District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, China, with strains ...

Researchers uncovered a microbe that treats one stop codon as both a termination signal and an amino-acid instruction, revealing surprising genetic flexibility that may inspire new ways to influence ...

Methane-producing archaea from the species Methanosarcina acetivorans. The microbes are stained with a fluorescent dye that specifically binds to the membranes of archaea. The beauty of the DNA code ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign ...