Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside thick metal cans. A wave of new research on bizarre, ultra‑tough microbes from ...

The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They ...

How can engineers design bricks on Mars for future habitats despite the toxic Martian regolith, also called perchlorates?

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances ...

In a way, it all started with a road trip about a decade ago. "My father, he had the car so I had to borrow the car from him," says Youcef Sellam, who was interning at the University of Modena e ...