Scientists found that microgravity fundamentally slows the infection cycle, pushing phages to become hyper-efficient at binding to hosts.

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found ...

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

After water crisis in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, groundwater samples from several parts of Bhopal have tested positive for E.

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...