A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

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Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

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We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: ...

For longtime Magic players, that “house style” is easy to recognize. Much of the game’s modern art direction leans toward dramatic realism and highly rendered digital fantasy paintings built for ...

The greatest pitfall in the search for extraterrestrial life—according to science fiction, anyway—is foolhardy researchers somehow bringing aliens to Earth to wreak havoc. But after decades of ...

Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All surfaces are scrubbed at scalding temperatures and soaked in disinfectant.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...