A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey Island reveals that birds were responsible for carrying most of the plants that colonized ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

As Arctic sea ice melts, new life may emerge from the thaw. Researchers have discovered that bacteria beneath and along the melting ice are converting nitrogen gas into a form that fuels algae. The ...

We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, ...

Regents Review is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

They’ve been fired from a gas gun to test their candidacy for panspermia, are believed to have survived the Beresheet lunar probe's crash-landing on the Moon, can live without water, withstand ...