Samples of female spongy moths and larvae — part of a hundred year old collection at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. The female moths have wings but are flightless.

A mummified Twinkie has become tasty Twitter fare after a pair of scientists shared a detailed thread about their research onto the snack. %3Cblockquote%20class ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BioAsteroid experiment. NASA astronaut Michael Scott Hopkins performs the insertion of the experiment containers in KUBIK.

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Endosymbiosis is a fascinating biological phenomenon in which an organism lives inside another. Such an unusual relationship is often beneficial for both parties. Even in our bodies, we find remnants ...

For the first time, scientists have grown chickpeas all the way to seed production in simulated lunar soil. That achievement represents a real step toward one of the hardest unsolved problems in space ...

Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new form of mosquito control in town — one that involves olfactory trickery, genetic engineering and a deadly infectious fungus. Researchers reported last week in the ...

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, a fungus spread thin threads across the rock. A bacterium built a slick ...