Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and ...

Astrobiologist Dr Louisa Preston, head of planetary science at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, told Metro: ‘Given the ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.

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Model and TikTok influencer Nara Smith is opening up about why she hid her latest pregnancy with baby No. 4 for six months.

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

They have led me here, to the subject of my essay, Robert Macfarlane’s tripartite ecological-literary tour de force, Is a ...

Today we will discuss some random animals that we may consider unusual although some of them, like the tardigrade, are not unusual at all, but ubiquitous. I first learned of the existence of ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...