Biology News

It is not science fiction to think that our eyes could very soon be the key to unlocking our homes, accessing our bank accounts and logging on to our computers.

A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming.

Termites -- notorious for their voracious appetite for wood, rendering houses to dust and causing billions of dollars in damage per year -- may provide the biochemical means to a greener biofuel future.

According to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the swarm intelligence of these amazingly organized bees can also be used to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges.

Imagine paint that adheres to a surface, but releases on command or road signs that change their reflectivity with changing weather conditions.

A population study of microbes in Yellowstone National Park hot pools suggests viruses might be buoyed by steam to distant pools. The result could help to answer some fundamental questions about how microbes, and the viruses that infect them, impact thei

Heather Hallen spent eight years looking for poison in all the wrong places.

Fluorescent proteins found in nature have been employed in a variety of scientific research purposes, from markers for tracing molecules in biomedicine to probes for testing environmental quality.

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a microchip.

A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester.