The twilight zone of the Pacific just got the teeniest bit less mysterious. Scientists from the California Academy of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to hunt for alien life on the surface of one of Saturn’s moons. Scientists want to send a probe to the icy world of Enceladus, which contains a ...

The atoms that make up life on Earth—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and more—were forged inside stars long before our planet ...

Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

As a proof of concept, the engineers then used the same system to convert acetyl-CoA into malate, a commercially valuable ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

The children of the Hyde Park Youth Symphony took the stage Thursday evening before an eager audience of parents and ...

In a breakthrough that defies nature, Northwestern University and Stanford University synthetic biologists have created a new ...

During a dark and cloudless Saturday night out on Tomales Bay, the red lights on the back of a dozen kayaks bobbed on the ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then ...