Elizabeth Svoboda

The discovery that apparently dead cells can sometimes resurrect themselves has researchers exploring how far they can push the point of no return.

Maria-Luiza Pedrotti is illuminating the unseen worlds of plastic-eating bacteria that teem in massive ocean garbage patches.

Layered deposits of coral skeletons hold vast stores of environmental data from thousands of years ago, including annual records of ocean temperatures, water pollution and storm activity.

Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa’s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be restored from “silent engrams.”

If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin.

The biologist Marcus Feldman creates mathematical models that reveal how cultural traditions can affect the evolution of a species.

The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.