Worms survive the antarctic cold thanks to ‘antifreeze’ made by bacteria

Using Webb, researchers detected several complex carbon-based molecules ...

Winter is the busiest season for your immune system. An onslaught of cold air, close contact and a crowded calendar that includes a party season filled with late nights, large meals and, possibly, a l

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

Scientists have pulled a 6-millionyear-old chunk of ice ...

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel