Earlier this year, scientists reported a breakthrough in biotechnology. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to convert plastic waste into the widely used painkiller paracetamol.

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface, tiny algae are defying the rules of biology. Their survival strategy not only redefines the limits of life but also raises urgent questions about ecosystems ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

E. coli is the field's main "workhorse" says Prof Wallace, who has also genetically engineered it in the lab to turn plastic waste into vanilla flavour and fatberg waste from sewers into perfume. "If ...

Planets are not living organisms and, like molecules, do not have to be biological. But at least one is deeply biological in ...

A National Science Foundation grant meant to increase the opportunities for minority students in STEM was cut in May for ...

A lab study on crickets has revealed sex differences in how the insects direct their nutritional resources to increase ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...