A wild type and three types of Arabidopsis seedlings generated in controlled experiments are pictured here in magnification. The far-left seedlings are wild-type with native levels of TOC33 ...

So, if life exists on Titan, it might not resemble the thriving, teeming ecosystems we know. Instead, think of isolated oases ...

Our experiments involved identifying heat-tolerant microbes and introducing them to plants that don't typically associate with them. When we tested a combination of plants and microbes in the APPL lab ...

Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae in a bid to help us understand how climate changes have affected the past.

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

Sea slugs, such as Elysia chlorotica, are small marine creatures that produce energy from sunlight - just like plants.

Researchers have revived prehistoric algae from Baltic Sea sediment nearly 7,000 years old, offering clues about how life ...

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

Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Elected faculty are Professor Albrecht von ...

“It's like billions of years of experiments were being run, but no one was keeping the lab notebook, so you only see the end ... like nitrogen fixation and enhanced photosynthesis efficiency, could be ...