When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

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In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to the 2030s, when hormone implants enabled users to boost everything from pain tolerance to ...

Despite being the primary food for more than half of the world's population, rice cultivation is very resource-intensive, ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

This summer, teenage youths are invited to join Native Californian traditional ecological knowledge specialists in learning ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly resource-intensive, requiring large ...

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.