A thin layer found in the top few centimeters of soil plays a big role in its ecology. Biocrust is built, maintained and ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through a wound triggers repair—a finding with ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

Discover how snowflake yeast defies expectations, growing exponentially due to physical processes, challenging traditional views on evolution.

Discover the largest living organism on Earth not a whale or tree, but something even more surprising. Learn where it lives, how it grows, and why it’s considered the biggest by mass and size.

In English we ‘it’ the living world; the objectifying, de-personalizing pronoun. In English, there is no verb ‘to river’ –– but what could be more of a verb than a river?!

A team of researchers have conducted a series of experiments showing that living things emit a very weak, but detectable packets of light. The signal is at the photonic level, according to a study ...

The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light ...

Living organisms emit a faint glow, which fades upon death, study finds. The glow is linked to ultraweak photon emission (UPE) from living cells. UPE may aid in non-invasive medical examinations ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have successfully utilized ice-carving technology to create precise nanoscale patterns on living organisms for the first time, according to Westlake University in ...

All living things, including humans, constantly emit a ghostly glow – and it appears to vanish almost as soon as we die. Monitoring this signal could one day help track forest health or even ...