I went to the Reflecting Pool because, as a certain American naturalist once said of a different pond, I wished to “live deliberately” and “see if I could not learn what it had to teach.” I doubted ...

At that stage they aren’t very good at cannibalism, but if a would-be Hulk manages to capture one of its siblings or cousins ...

Enlisting nature to help purify the Reflecting Pool could be more patriotic and successful than tossing in more chemicals.

University of California San Diego marine microbiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Farooq Azam has been selected ...

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infectious diseases are the second global cause of death after ...

Mitochondrial research is moving quickly, and much of the momentum comes from early-career scientists who are opening new questions and building the tools ...

Let’s begin with microbes A microbe is a very small, living organism that’s usually visible only under a microscope. Its name ...

Predatory heterotrophic protists contributed a relatively consistent fraction of the total 18S rRNA gene amplicon abundances, varying between 10 to 20% in the surface mixed layer (SML) and 9 to 14% in ...

Volume electron microscopy reveals mitobiosis, a bacterial endosymbiosis with mitochondria, ranging from weak associations to established bacterial residency within mitochondria of evolutionarily ...

Scientists exploring one of Earth's most extreme environments uncovered mysterious black cocoons that revealed an entirely new deep-sea species. A robotic expedition into one of the least explored ...