Mold is not just a cosmetic problem on a bathroom wall or basement beam. It is a living organism that feeds on your home and ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

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BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has achieved a major advance in the precise regulation of protein degradation in living ...

Meet Pumuckel, a tiny miniature Shetland pony and the official titleholder for the World's Shortest Living Horse.

Far off the New England coast, one of Earth’s rarest mammals is surviving on a food source so small it usually slips past ...

Mammals, for instance, differ dramatically in their maximal lifespans—from the tiny forest shrew, which lives only one or two years, to the bowhead whale, capable of living for more than 200 years.

Scientists have already created designer viruses in a lab that can kill dangerous bacteria. The next step is designing and growing actual living cells such as bacteria and fungi. They would be ...