Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

Scientists have confirmed that one of Earth's most remarkable living beings—a massive forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah known as Pando—is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, solidifying its place ...

The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

A new study provides evidence for a direct link between electrical fields in the atmosphere and those found in living organisms, including humans. Most electrical activity in vertebrates and ...