Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard ...

What were the standards in asylums in Limerick in the 19th century? Dr Peter Kirwan discovers an antique form of HIQA ...

Grab your lab coat, or at least pretend you have one, and prepare to zoom way, way in because we’re about to explore a world ...

Grab your lab coat, or at least pretend you have one, and prepare to zoom way, way in because we’re about to explore a world ...

Tiny robots—around 50 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—open up fascinating possibilities: they enable the ...

Traditionally, identifying a bacterium requires peering through a microscope. Researchers from TU Delft want to trade your ...

Mars may be hostile, but it might not be entirely unlivable. In lab experiments, yeast cells survived simulated Martian shock ...

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Escherichia coli bacteria swim around a puck without a channel, which rotates slowly (film has been sped up 10 times). Credit ...

Science is supposed to help us see the world more clearly but sometimes, it just reveals how strange it really is. A grain of ...