Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Growing human organs in laboratories has rapidly moved from the annals of fiction into the realm of actual science. But ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a ...

The current convention of describing (defining) organisms new to science and establishing their ... other bacterial biomes are far greater than our body, and consequently, they are not ...

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

As a result, mirror bacteria could hypothetically replicate to extremely high levels in the human body, causing conditions similar to ... We share concerns about the dangers of restricting science ...

The High School Science Club works throughout the year to expand scientific knowledge of its members. "Science Club is a student organization made up of ninth- through 12th-grade students interested ...

The work is described in a paper published on January 17 in the journal Science ... of bacteria that grow an encapsulating polymer matrix of their own. There are biofilms in the human body ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...