Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

A breakdown of Exobiotica, a speculative world that imagines alien life through believable evolution, anatomy, and ecosystems ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to identify alien biology. Credit: Stock Scientists may have found a hidden ...

Here was India’s premier medical institute using the language of modern molecular biology to examine what generations of ...

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and ...

Which of these select feature-length movies or short films that prominently feature carnivorous plants and/or contain important plot points where forms of vegetation are a threat to humanity is your ...

Supreme Court of Georgia could soon clarify whether plaintiffs without current injuries can recover medical monitoring for potential future illness—and under which legal standards. Justices to hear ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Two newly registered federal website domains – Alien.gov and Aliens.gov – are drawing attention after records showed they were created this week by a U.S. government agency, fueling speculation as ...

Today, the Council approved conclusions on the new EU’s bioeconomy strategy. The Council conclusions welcome the vision for a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy by 2040, promote the use of ...

A biologist takes inspiration from fungus-growing ants in his research with microbes that grow on roots in soil. Leafcutter ants, seen here on fungi, inspired Ulrich Mueller’s research on microbiome ...