That is because policies and legislation aimed at protecting the natural world are often written in the language of flora and fauna, terms that describe a region’s plants and animals respectively.

Scientists found that plants communicate with fungi through strigolactones, boosting phosphate metabolism and growth.

Scientists think meltwater beneath Martian ice could support microbial life. NASA's new research shows that Martian ice could ...

We have collections of subtle membranous algae and blue fungi as well as 99% of Ohio vascular flora. Come visit us! We’re in 79 Upham Hall (south wing across from the Hefner Museum), west of the ...

For years, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a spacecraft circling the Red Planet — has seen white material lining dry ...

NASA scientists believe life could exist beneath icy surface on Mars as a result of photosynthesis. In a new paper published ...

Is there life on Mars? Scientists have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time. Although no concrete evidence ...

New NASA research suggests that microbes could thrive in meltwater beneath Mars’ frozen surface, offering a potential habitat ...

Playing sound to Trichoderma harzianum, a green microscopic fungus that defends tree roots from pathogens, led to growth rates seven times as fast as those of fungus grown in the sound of silence.

ALIEN life could be lurking under frozen water to survive on Mars, Nasa scientists have suggested. Living on the Red Planet ...

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home ...

“Millions of species and billions of organisms—bacteria, algae, microscopic insects, earthworms, beetles, ants, mites, fungi, ...