Description: While humans age and die (which is kind of a bummer), it looks like hydras will stay young and fertile forever. Why is this? And what can we learn from these tentacular microscopic ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Eight miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, the island of Vieques offers beaches, bioluminescence and decades of military ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can ...

The study found that viruses in the plastisphere carry out a process called horizontal gene transfer. In that process, ...

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied ...

Researchers have discovered that natural "sunscreen" compounds found in algae and cyanobacteria may also support skin and heart health. By comparing two mycosporine-like amino acids, the team showed ...

Idaho growers face a threat from diseases harming potato quality and impacting profits. USDA grants fund research to tackle the growing problem.

Scientists create smallest programmable robots ever – smaller than salt grains, these breakthrough microscopic machines could ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

Tardigrades are microscopic organisms found in environments that often appear lifeless. Scientists and enthusiasts locate them by collecting specific materials and observing subtle biological clues.