This story was co-published with The Guardian. Police departments across the U.S. are quietly leveraging school district ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.

Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside thick metal cans. A wave of new research on bizarre, ultra‑tough microbes from ...