It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them into entirely new organisms beyond life and death? While it might sound completely out of this world—something you ...

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As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

As creatures made up of trillions of cells, it’s easy for us to look down on single-celled organisms, but new research from Harvard suggests that some of them may be capable of more complex ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism ...

The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain. The growing warmth and ...

Tiny, brainless blobs might be able to make decisions: A single-celled organism can "change its mind" to avoid going near an irritating substance, according to new findings. Over a century ago, ...

The bigger the whale, the tougher it is to find a decent meal. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Giant, krill-eating whales could grow even bigger if the size and availability of ...