The Pando is a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US-but it's ...

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

Why don’t trees rot in the ground, while wooden structures do if they aren’t built properly? Trees are living organisms that ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees is under threat from wildlife and climate change.

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being ...

A team of European researchers is currently aiming to create simple synthetic life forms from scratch using molecules that ...

This incredible colony of over 40,000 trees is considered a single organism, making it the largest on the planet. It is also the oldest living organism on Earth, as it is believed to have begun ...

Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Here's a handy list of the investigations which fit with the theme of The Human Body and Living Things, with all the key information you need. Each investigation has a teacher resources page which ...

This free five-day lesson plan explores five versatile habitats, providing a daily lesson plan, vocabulary matching activity, ...