A research report argues that NASA's planned lunar base project should include a bioconfinement facility that would protect ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Researchers say a biocontainment facility on the Moon could be humanity's last line of defense against potential future alien ...

As humanity prepares to bring back material from the Moon, Mars, and potentially other worlds, a new question is moving from ...

The Trump administration said individuals were moved to ensure their safety during hurricane season. Environmental groups ...

The FDA is investigating three cases of botulism linked to Nara Organics.

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

Though river monitoring shows bacteria levels have declined, scientists and environmentalists said a full recovery isn’t yet assured. Though river monitoring shows bacteria levels have declined, ...

As device geometries continue to shrink and process integration becomes more complex, the margin for contamination grows smaller with every technology node. Contamination can originate from process ...

Arising from M. Ellabaan et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22757-1 (2021) Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through mobile genetic elements ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...