While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have designed a truly curious — and partially alive — smartwatch. It incorporates a heart rate monitor that’s (kind of) powered by electrically conductive slime ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

Surveying the body sizes of Earth's living organisms, researchers found that the planet's biomass -- the material that makes up all living organisms -- is concentrated in organisms at either end of ...

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The idea that the cosmos might be alive is moving from late-night speculation into serious, if controversial, scientific conversation. Instead of treating life as a rare accident in a dead universe, a ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

With human bias removed, organizations looking to improve performance by harnessing digital technology can expect changes to how information is scrutinized. With human bias removed, organizations ...

In labs that once focused on fruit flies and mouse neurons, researchers are now turning their instruments and intuitions on large language models, treating them less like software and more like ...