Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Over the last few decades, physical principles have been proposed to explain some biological processes and functions. However ...

Human biology was forged across millions of years of dietary variety. No one food can even come close to honoring that.

The microbe Haloarcula marismortui swims by growing a unique, reinforced outer sheath around its tail, providing essential ...

From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz ...

Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of ...

Cravings for a late-night snake could impact the gut microbiome in adults with prediabetes. The gut microbiome is the ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They ...

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

Northern Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere—is rapidly disappearing and by some ...

Giant viruses are so named because of the size of their genome. (Tumeggy/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have ...