The bacteria that have been enlisted for this cancer -fighting quest are called Clostridium sporogenes. They usually live in soil, because they need an environment with no oxygen at all. As it turns ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

That's because a fragment of it landed in the family driveway, where the Wilcocks saw it in the morning. They described it as if someone had thrown a piece of coal at the ground. It actually made a ...

In the UK, the first birth following a living-donor womb transplant took place in April 2025. After a successful Caesarean ...

Sometimes the geologic record obscures evidence of these important reversals in field direction, but statistical techniques ...

“Knowing that a ‘whinny’ is not just a ‘whinny’ but that it is actually composed of two different fundamental frequencies that are created by two different mechanisms is exciting,” Alisa Herbst, a ...

Located somewhere beyond the orbit of Neptune, this mysterious object lies within the Kuiper Belt, a ring-shaped region of space in the outer solar system. Populated by thousands of icy, rocky bodies, ...

Genes underpinning how the brain responds to nicotine could be a promising new target for drugs to help people quit smoking.

Born in 1162 CE, Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. It stretched 24 million square kilometers (9.27 million square miles) at its height, ...

Luckily, it did not have to face Shelob, but it might have learned about the past habitability of the Red Planet.

We are losing species at an alarming rate, and the world urgently needs a distributed network of global BioVaults – a true backup plan for life on Earth.” ...

U trecht's famous fish doorbell, which first began operating in 2021, is returning for another year. Soon, people of the ...