Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

Despite its critical importance, rice has seen very little venture investment to drive yields and cut emissions, says Azolla ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

Learn more about the Middle Island Sinkhole, an under water sinkhole with no oxygen.

B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

The evolution of teeth began in the oceans around half a billion years ago. First, filter-feeding fish evolved jaws – not to ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...