In the dark, damp soil of high-altitude Sikkim, where moss carpets the ground and daylight barely penetrates the earth, Indian scientists have uncovered a creature never before recorded in the country ...

Chandigarh: Punjab govt has given in-principle approval to a Rs 1.61 crore micro-level study on water resources and seepage patterns, said finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Monday. The study, to ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 4. Kazakhstan is rolling out a new model for granting subsoil use rights in the hydrocarbons and uranium sectors, Maxim Spotkay, the Head of the Senate Administration, ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

Soil is a dynamic, three-dimensional living system that serves as both a habitat for soil microorganisms, flora and fauna and a medium for recycling nutrients and water. It is the foundation of global ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as C. elegans, a worm used in scientific research. Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex ...

Soil is the thin layer of material covering the earth’s surface and is formed from the weathering of rocks. It is made up mainly of mineral particles, organic materials, air, water and living ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new study claims that fungi possess great intelligence to the point that they can make decisions. A group of scientists tested how fungi would grow across patterns of blocks, and found that they ...