Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...
Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...
The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...
An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...
On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...
From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...
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