A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

What would you do if a UFO crashed outside your house moments after an emergency broadcast warned of something falling from ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

In the popular film “Project Hail Mary,” a molecular biologist-turned-astronaut travels for 11 years in an induced coma to ...

From a jellyfish that cheats death to a tiny indestructible animal that can survive the vacuum of space, Earth is home to some creatures so biologically bizarre they seem like they shouldn't belong he ...

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a vast underground network of microscopic fungi ...

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We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

For longtime Magic players, that “house style” is easy to recognize. Much of the game’s modern art direction leans toward dramatic realism and highly rendered digital fantasy paintings built for ...

The greatest pitfall in the search for extraterrestrial life—according to science fiction, anyway—is foolhardy researchers somehow bringing aliens to Earth to wreak havoc. But after decades of ...

Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All surfaces are scrubbed at scalding temperatures and soaked in disinfectant.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...