The human gut is home to thousands of species of bacteria, and some of those bacteria have the potential to...
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Scientists warn, without good biosecurity measures 'alien organisms' on Earth may become a reality stranger than fiction. Published in international...
It's hard to know what climate change will mean for Earth's interconnected and interdependent webs of life. But one team...
To understand the biological underpinnings of skin and hair pigmentation and related diseases such as albinism or melanoma, scientists and...
Almost every living thing on Earth -- from bacteria to plants to people -- have a circadian rhythm, the biological...
Some researchers hypothesize that ice sheets enveloped the earth during the Marinoan glaciation (650-535 million years ago) in what is...
The ocean has always glowed.The Greeks and Romans knew of luminous sea creatures as well as the more general phenomenon...
A new study from CU Boulder finds that hundreds of millions of years ago, small single-celled organisms may have evolved...
As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of increased ocean temperatures. However, the...
All life on Earth 500 million years ago lived in the oceans, but scientists know little about how these animals...