Once these conditions have been understood and defined, life history models can be used to answer questions such as: How small or large should an organism grow? At what age and size should it mature?

By growing these objects in microgravity using biological organisms, they hope to avoid the costly and painstaking process of launching components from Earth. “We have yet to unlock the potential of ...

Unlike the creamy-white mushrooms you're used to buying off the grocery shelves, the organisms growing in your backyard aren't always as innocuous, regardless of how benign they look. Gorging on ...

The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of ...

And its pups grow for more than eight years before they're even born? Why do some organisms grow, live and reproduce in the whirlwind of a season while others slowly stretch their lives for centuries?

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of ...

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.