The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...

The level of toxicity is dependent on the crude oil that it has been refined from. Sodium cyanide, which is used in industry ...

The best way to support and maintain a healthy sustainable community is by protecting wildlife, birds and pollinators.

Analysis - When people talk about the coronavirus, they sometimes describe this invisible entity as if it has a personality ...

Research on plastics in aquatic environments is well-established, but little is known about their presence, pathways, and ...