A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...

For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that quietly shaped everything from wastewater treatment plants to vaccine ...

Scientists have discovered that a bacterium trapped in an ice cave for 5,000 years is resistant to several modern antibiotics. The bacterium was found in Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania, where ...