With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science ...

Reaching as tall as 26 feet and living over 400 million years ago, this giant life form represented a branch in the evolution ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

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Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debut a new classification system focused on student success. As widespread public skepticism about the ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s “living skin”—is responsible for processes like water filtration. The newly ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...