Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate also known as water bears—are the only animals observed to survive the intense radiation and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina is no stranger to invasive species ― but some are a bit more unsettling than others. Plenty of invasive species ...

North Carolina is no stranger to invasive species ― but some are a bit more unsettling than others. Plenty of invasive species have established populations in North Carolina, including zebra mussels, ...

"Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...

By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may someday talk to – alien life.