When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the...

Beneath the prickly spines of European hedgehogs, a microbial standoff may have bred a dangerous drug-resistant pathogen long before the...

Penicillin, effective against many bacterial infections, is often a first-line antibiotic. Yet it is also one of the most common causes...

The next time you thank your lucky stars, you might want to bless the binaries. New calculations indicate that a massive star whose outer...

Birds can sense Earth’s magnetic field, and this uncanny ability may help them fly home from unfamiliar places or navigate migrations...

Elephants rarely succumb to cancer. That’s surprising given how large the animals grow and how long they can live, which should provide...

Some bacteria can trigger unexploded viral grenades in neighboring bacteria’s DNA. Certain Escherichia coli bacteria, including some that...

Tardigrades’ close arthropod relatives can see color and ultraviolet light. But tardigrades don’t have the same light-sensing proteins,...

In people, fecal transplants — which take feces from healthy people and transplant it into ill individuals, usually by colonoscopy — have...

Newly created “blastoids” could give scientists a faster and simpler way to research embryonic development than using fertilized human...

Gut microbes give some squirrels a helping hand to stay strong during hibernation. The microorganisms appear to help the squirrels...

Deadly, fat-sucking mites and wing-wrecking viruses, take note. Specially engineered gut microbes can defend honeybees by tricking their...

Scientists have developed a new way to create “sights” for blind people. It’s like skywriting, but instead of blue sky, the letters are...

A handful of small, nocturnal geckos have spilled their guts for science, revealing how the creatures get by in a part of Earth’s hottest...

When the ponds where one African fish lives dry up, its offspring put their lives on pause. And now researchers have a sense for how the...

The twilight time between fully awake and sound asleep may be packed with creative potential. People who recently drifted off into a...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is marked by repetitive, anxiety-inducing thoughts, urges and compulsions, such as excessive...

Genome-edited food made with CRISPR–Cas9 technology is being sold on the open market for the first time. Since September, the Sicilian...

Lithium-ion batteries are at the heart of nearly every electric vehicle, laptop, and smartphone, and they are essential to storing...

In 1993, a 51-year-old man, when he tried to tell a lie, often passed out and had convulsions. In essence, he became a kind of Pinocchio....