Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

A lake in China has gone viral thanks to its otherworldly milky-white waters. Baiyinchagan Lake, located in Inner Mongolia, ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

The universality of calcium as an intracellular messenger depends on its enormous versatility. Cells have a calcium signalling toolkit with many components that can be mixed and matched to create ...

One of those strategies is to create a concrete that “self-heals,” and in a new study, scientists used synthetic lichen to ...