Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural ...

Boston, Massachusetts — Creatures that thrive on iron, sulfur, and other chemicals have been found trapped inside giant crystals deep in a Mexican cave. The microbial life-forms are most likely new to ...

Byju Raveendran, the embattled founder of Indian edtech giant Byju’s, has blasted a U.S. bankruptcy court’s order directing him to pay more than $1.07 billion. He is denying wrongdoing, accusing ...

Respiration is the physiological process through which oxygen in the environment can be exchanged with carbon dioxide from an organism. This process requires specialized organs such as the lungs or ...

Musk's Mars mission adds risk to red-hot SpaceX IPO Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with ...

The global community’s most authoritative estimates of how many people go hungry in places that are suffering food emergencies exhibit substantial and widespread undercounting. Given other ...

Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their repeated similar evolution makes them interesting to ...

A flash of bright orange on a rocky outcrop might not look like much, but for paleontologists it could be a beacon pointing toward hidden dinosaur bones. As researchers probe how this unusual organism ...

I’m walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there’s a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...