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MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

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North Dakota lawmakers will hear testimony on a bill that would require schools to teach "intelligent design"—the belief that ...

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Proponents of Senate Bill 2355 say the theory that life on Earth was created by an intelligent designer should be taught in ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...