A photo from a hike in central Oregon sent Reddit into botany-explainer mode after one user asked for help identifying a ...

It smells like rotten flesh, attracts flies, and looks like it's from an alien planet. But the stinkhorn mushroom is more common than people think.

A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be. Bruce Elder shares with us his extensive knowledge, insights, and hot tips for every Australian town in ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...

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Fellow Traveller just hosted a whole event about story games. Fellow Traveller just hosted a whole event about story games. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

A shell that protected the Perseverance rover during its descent to Mars in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA / JPL-Caltech As scientists search for life beyond Earth, spacecraft ...

The greatest pitfall in the search for extraterrestrial life—according to science fiction, anyway—is foolhardy researchers somehow bringing aliens to Earth to wreak havoc. But after decades of ...

Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All surfaces are scrubbed at scalding temperatures and soaked in disinfectant.

Look beyond animals, plants, and even fungi, for a moment, and you’ll see a world made up of other, far stranger forms of life. Some of these organisms might look alien, such as slime moulds, but they ...