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In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

We know the genes, but not their functions—to resolve this long-standing bottleneck in microbial research, a joint research ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

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The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Traditional biomanufacturing is based on microbial or mammalian cell culture, plants can be grown in bioreactors and hold ...

Researchers led by Yue Pan at Shenyang Agricultural University tested how swings between wet and dry conditions affect soil organic carbon breakdown ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...