Tardigrades – also known as moss piglets – prefer damp environments, but they can survive just about anywhere. Thomas Shahan/Flickr, CC BY-SA A newly discovered protein from Earth’s toughest animal is ...

Most living organisms break down instantly when exposed to outer space. With no oxygen, crushing radiation, and extreme ...

Microfabrication is—simply put—the construction of tiny things, including microscopic and nanoscopic objects and patterns. Microfabrication has major potential in medicine and biomedical engineering, ...

This tardigrade is sporting a new “tattoo” — represented in this magnified image by the highlighted dots, and visible in the inset image. If you haven’t heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be ...

Tardigrades were first discovered in 1773 by a German zoologist and pastor in a pond behind his church. Struck by their pudgy form, he dubbed them “water bears.” Jaime Jiménez was examining moss ...

If there were ever an animal that seemed built for space, it might be the water bear. Also known as tardigrades, these microscopic creatures already sound like science fiction. They survive being ...

How can we protect space explorers from cosmic radiation without encasing spaceships in massive layers of lead? Some have suggested dosing them with the DNA-protecting protein from tardigrades – but ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we've featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we ...

If you haven’t heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...