25 January 2022
It was thought that microbes in sediments beneath the seafloor died above 80°C, but scientists have found some that can survive up to 120°C and possibly higher temperatures
29 November 2021
Swarms of tiny "xenobots" can self-replicate in the lab by pushing loose cells together – the first time this form of reproduction has been seen in multicellular organisms
17 February 2021
The blue whale, the mountain gorilla and the European bison are among the animals that have avoided extinction, showing what works to preserve the world’s wildlife
15 February 2021
Biologists say the inadvertent discovery of sea life on a boulder underneath an Antarctic ice shelf and hundreds of kilometres challenges our understanding of how far organisms can live from sunlight.
6 October 2020
Did life begin suddenly in a chemical big bang, or did the ingredients come together slowly, bit by bit from a primordial soup? Science with sam explains
23 September 2020
This image is a terrible reminder of the US wildfire crisis. Here it rages by California's Bidwell Bar Bridge, which spans Oroville Lake in Butte County
2 September 2020
This image released by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a giant bloom created by phytoplankton off the Swedish coast
5 August 2020
We thought we understood life’s minimal energy requirements – but microbes beneath the sea floor survive on hundreds of times less energy than we considered possible
4 August 2020
The idea that life didn't begin on Earth, but elsewhere in the universe, and that it was carried here on meteoroids and other space bodies.
8 July 2020
These strange, mushroom-like structures are the reproductive phase of a type of slime mould, complex amoebae that feed on bacteria on forest floors
