Tiny bacterial factories dubbed “bacterial dirigibles” might someday deliver disease-fighting chemicals straight to a targeted body part - like your intestine.
California condors were all but extinct a few decades ago. Their numbers are up, and they are now at the center of the controversy over lead hunting ammunition.
You're not likely to see much of the planet Jupiter in early May 2011. However, the giant planet quickly climbs away the glow of dawn throughout the month. When will you first spot Jupiter, the sky's second planet, in the east before sunrise?
Ryan Kerney and a team of biologists found green algae living inside salamander embryo cells, the first cellular-level symbiosis ever seen in a vertebrate.