An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

The "blob" has no mouth, no stomach and no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it The Paris Zoological Park may be home to the most unusual organism in the world — the “blob.” The latest addition ...

Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock ...

Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

A giant fungus, Armillaria ostoyae, lives beneath Oregon's Blue Mountains. This single organism spans over 2,300 acres. It consists of a network of mycelium, feeding on dead wood. The mushrooms are ...

A tiny fish may show how stem cells change into organs, tissues. June 3, 2010 — -- Scientists are a step closer to unraveling one of the greatest mysteries of the biological world: how stem cells ...

Developing new medicines and understanding how they target specific organs often gives a crucial advantage in the fight against human diseases. An international team has developed a technology to ...

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have produced a living bacterium that has a strand of artificial DNA made with chemical “letters” not found in nature or any other ...

During a spacewalk intended to clean the International Space Station, Russian astronauts took samples from the exterior of the station for a routine analysis. The results of the experiment were quite ...