Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.

The revised standards, which are laid out in a 220-page document, go before the Iowa Board of Education for the first time on Thursday.

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about cellular filaments that play a critical role in wound healing, according to a ...

Readers explain that this colouration pattern in many living things is all about camouflage, while its opposite tends to ...

Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord and ...

A quarter of a century after he started writing his “Critical Point” column, Robert P Crease reveals his underlying message ...

The World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the ...