A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

So begins Christie Lowrance’s children’s book, “The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story,” which she spoke about last Friday ...

You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, mitochondria produce energy, lysosomes recycle waste and the ...

Ryo Suzuki and his team at the University of Colorado Boulder are pioneering this new approach to make textbooks dynamic and ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting ...

A senior at Episcopal Academy, Aaron Zhu received the Jarvis Meirs Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology and the Bowdoin ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

Bob Woodward’s latest book reveals that Trump sent Putin Covid tests when they were scarce in the US, and that Biden privately calls Netanyahu a ‘son of a bitch’ and a ‘fucking liar’. Picture: Getty ...

Hibbitts, his father and brother collaborated on two books — Texas Lizards and Texas Amphibians. Hibbitts earned a bachelor’s degree in biology with a wildlife ... governments and private landowners ...