Here’s a fun science fact for the day: down in the ocean’s darkest, coldest depths, an area we’ll call Davy Jones’ sub-locker ...

The synthetic bacterium, named Syn57, has the most radically compressed genetic code ever built, opening the door to future ...

Fire crews are not just fighting a fire, but the weather, as they work to contain the Monroe Canyon Fire as it races toward the Pando Aspen Clone.

A creature resembling a jellyfish was spotted in a pond at Presque Isle State Park. Said creature is called a Craspedacusta ...

Left to its own devices, nature is very good at recycling. Nothing is ever wasted. Everything can be used again and can be ...

A model wasp species loved and well studied by scientists has another trick under its wings – the ability to pause ...

Perfect Organism is all of the above, and more. That can occasionally be an awkward fit, like a Chestburster and, well, a ...

Rainbow Reservoir on the Farmington River in Windsor is experiencing an active Cyanobacteria bloom, according to the ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia, South Carolina. The CDC said 167 cases of the infection have been reported in the U.S. between ...

Their research report describes a new organism they've put together, using only 473 genes. That gives it the smallest genome of any known living thing that is able to reproduce on its own. (For ...

Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC is recalling Member’s Mark Freeze Dried Fruit Variety Pack 15 count boxes, UPC 1 93968 50900 2 due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria ...

"Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth have descended from some primordial form, into which life was first breathed," he wrote in "On the Origin of Species" in 1859.