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 ...

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 ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

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 world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten alive after living on Earth for thousands of years. The Pando is a ...

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

The microbes were found in the Amazonian peatlands of Peru and could be valuable for sequestering carbon in the damp soils.

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