BIOLOGY

The earliest known ancestor of all living things made its home on a hydrothermal vent, subsisting on hydrogen and metal.

We've misunderstood them for well over a century.

There are Star Wars fans everywhere, including among the scientists who study life on Earth.

Researchers use math to explain why jet lag happens and how travel direction plays a role.

Juan Pablo Culasso has turned his perfect pitch into a career in nature recording.

Researchers say only 1/1000th of 1 percent have been identified to date.

Here's a good reason to avoid ditching those veggie scraps.

In the spring of 2021, the cicadas of Brood X will surface in the Eastern U.S. for the first time in 17 years.

And that gene just so happens to be called "sonic hedgehog."

Being cold depletes an animal’s energy reserves and immune system.

It’s so much more than baby food.

Some populations of lowland leopard frogs in Arizona have gene variants that protect them from a deadly fungal disease.