So, when a researcher learned about a massive organism in Utah that has been around for way longer than humans, he was ...

A team of Indian researchers has discovered that baker’s yeast can survive extreme Martian-like conditions involving high-intensity shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts. Baker’s yeast ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Sure, the University of Colorado and the University of Utah may be rivals, but a less-publicized competition is also taking place between the two states. The result of this contest has even more at ...

Does a video clip show new footage of the Comet 3I/ATLAS? No, that's not true: This video did not originate from any research ...

The largest organism in the world has survived relatively unnoticed within the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. Now, researchers are concerned that this organism, 1,000's of years old, is dying. The ...

A virus-eating organism has been identified. Researchers have found the first known "virovore," or organism that eats viruses. Every sort of organism that can be discovered in the world feeds on ...

For the first time, a team of scientists has created a synthetic single-celled organism that can divide and grow like a regular living cell. This breakthrough could lead to designer cells that can ...

If you had to guess what the fastest moving organism on the planet is, it’s probable that lions, tigers or bears (oh my) rank pretty high on the list, right? Indeed, most people would probably say ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Sheffield in the UK and Boston College in the U.S., has found a microfossil in the Scottish Highlands which contains two distinct cell types and could be ...