A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

A peculiar fossil discovery has raised eyebrows in the scientific community, prompting researchers to rethink the boundaries ...

A recent study reveals that regular cold water swimming can positively alter cellular stress responses. Immersing healthy young men in cold water dail ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

Bradford Pear Bounty Day will take place as part of the Earth Day celebrations on Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on the grounds ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from ...

In the back of a real estate office building in what is known as America's oldest city, capybaras are crawling into visitors' ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

Analysis includes mitochondria and plastids to leverage eukaryotic fossil data. Land plants and animals are shown for time reference. Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their ...

It forms extensive networks in cellular structures like microtubules, amyloid fibrils, and neurons. The Quantum Biology Laboratory (QBL) discovered quantum superradiance in these structures, revealing ...