Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Even from space, you can see that the planet Earth is full of life. When you take a closer look, you'll discover a delicate ...

Individual organisms in a community interact in many different ways. An interaction may benefit both individuals, or the interaction may benefit one organism to the detriment of the other.

Age might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all ...

Right on schedule, the vibrant but venomous Portuguese man-of-war are washing onto beaches in the Hilton Head Island area.

Therefore, each fly will carry two alleles for the body color gene. Within an individual organism, the specific combination of alleles for a gene is known as the genotype of the organism ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive-walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers ...

A remarkable aspen forest that sprouted from a single seedling makes "the Roman Empire seem like a recent phenomenon." ...

Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an ...

Much like how our faces and bodies are symmetrical, bee colonies showcase an impressive feat of nature in their nest constructions. Interestingly, their nests display a mirrored symmetry when ...

In recent years, scientists have created a range of new methods based on CRISPR-Cas technology for precisely editing the ...

Like Jakura, Soto-Angel’s curiosity was rewarded. After being exposed to the stress of starvation and physical injury, the ...