Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

Learn about the Moon-Rice project, which aims to create rice crops that can grow in space and help keep astronauts healthy.

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

Now, the Moon-Rice project, a collaborative effort led by the Italian Space Agency and three Italian universities, aims to develop a “super-dwarf” rice variety ideal for sustained space habitation and ...

Remnants of transposable elements (TEs) are widely expressed throughout mammalian embryo development. Originally infesting our genomes as selfish elements and acting as a source of genome instability, ...

The traditional Japanese paste tastes nuttier and more roasted when made in orbit, according to an experiment that could help ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

I n a world first, scientists have created mice with two fathers, capable of having offspring of their own. It’s a huge step ...

The research was led by Dr Irène Amblard and Dr Vicki Metzis from the Development and Transcriptional Control group, in ...