Tardigrades are well-known for their amazing survival skills, and scientists are exploring whether some of those impressive abilities could help humans. A new study from the University of Wyoming ...

This might sound like the prelude to a sci-fi tale of deathless human-tardigrade hybrids, but the reality is more mundane. “It's not to live forever or to make ourselves immortal,” Sanchez-Martinez ...

Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Tardigrades, the ubiquitous microscopic animals that resemble gummy bears with eight legs, are renowned for their ability to survive ...