Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The largest single organism in the world could soon fracture into smaller pieces. According to research published in the ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the cosmos behaves less like a dead machine and more like a living system. Instead ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Great Basin bristlecone pine, the oldest known individual non-clonal organism on Earth, in a study that may eventually help explain how the species survives ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied ...

Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new ...