Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling a panda has been confirmed to be new to science.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them ...

A fruit fly might not be the smartest organism, but scientists can still learn a lot from its brain. Researchers are hoping to do that now that they have a new map — the most complete for any ...

GMOs have long been at the center of debate — while some are wary of their health implications, others argue for their ability to make food healthier and more accessible. A genetically modified ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — despite being genetically identical. Why they're awesome: The largest ...

Future challenges include analysing TLR function in invertebrate deuterostomes, lophochotrozoan and cnidarian model organisms, and further dissection of the NF-κB-independent role of TLRs during ...

Many bacteria within this class live inside the cells of other organisms. For example, mitochondria – the powerhouses of animal, plant and other eukaryotic cells – evolved from bacteria within this ...

The ecosystems found across the Earth, including in forests, lakes and prairies, consist of communities of plants, animals and microbes. How these organisms interact with each other determines which ...