All life on Earth - from microbes to elephants and us - requires the element phosphorus as one of its six components. But now researchers have discovered a bacterium that appears to have replaced that ...

Yesterday, NASA announced the discovery of a bacterium that can grow on a diet of arsenic and thus doesn't share the biological building blocks traditionally associated with all life forms. The ...

A body of water surrounded by craggy rocks. The “arsenic life” microbe came from Mono Lake, a highly alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water in California. Credit: Al Ungar/Shutterstock In the retraction ...

Gizmodo is reporting that NASA’s big announcement later today will be that a new form of life has been found in the harsh environment of California’s Mono Lake: a bacteria that is based not on the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...