Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

The university researchers believe it could be embraced on a much larger scale. Scientists say this small organism could ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Chlordecone concentrations in earthworms are sometimes 20 times higher than in the soil. They must therefore concentrate the chlordecone present in their environment. The impacts of this on ecosystems ...

This triumph is due above all to the development of farming, and animal and plant breeding, which opened up new habitats for the small rodents. After being hunted as pests and competitors for food for ...

In Jainism, root vegetables are skipped as uprooting them kills whole organisms. Jain texts term them “ananthkay”, meaning infinite lives in one. Potatoes grow underground, which involves disturbing ...

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting to-do list often goes something like: clean up endlessly after an ...

Now he’s unlocked the final stage of a daring two-decades long research mission aimed at giving life to the first multicellular organism with entirely synthetic DNA. The groundbreaking ...

This device works similarly to smartphones and radio-frequency identification tags, which are small chips used in electronic payments and tracking items. However, the pacemaker has a built-in antenna ...

Small organisms can have a big impact, and researchers have explored nearly a dozen nontraditional yeast strains to determine which ones could brew the best nonalcoholic beers for a rapidly ...