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Earth already contains organisms that survive conditions humans could never endure. Alien life, if it exists, may force ...

Viewing honey bee colonies as superorganisms could reshape modern beekeeping, raising important questions about parasite ...

If you had to guess the most abundant organism on the whole planet, you’d probably think of ants or, maybe, bacteria. But a newly discovered virus might trump them all. Pelagibacter ubique is often ...

It was Charles Darwin who first guessed at the mysterious creature that gave rise to all life as we know it. "Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth have descended from ...

A tiny, aquatic, single-celled organism can contract to one quarter of its body length in less than five milliseconds – hundreds of times faster than a human can blink. Researchers have discovered ...

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is usually defined as an organism whose DNA has been altered by genetic engineering. But in the broader sense of the term, people have been genetically modifying ...

A clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism. There are a number of technologies that have been used for cloning, including those used to clone genes, single cells and whole organisms. Gene ...