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The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who would be the invaders.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The gut microbiome is intimately linked to human health and weight. Differences in the gut microbiome—the bacteria and fungi in the gut—are associated with obesity and weight gain, raising the ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

PATERSON – The state health department recently found germs that cause Legionnaires’ disease in the water at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in tests conducted after a patient infected with the ...