Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

In 1972, two scientists wrote a paper hypothesizing that life more complex than bacteria cannot live in temperatures above ...

Antarctica is home to organisms that have evolved to survive months of darkness, frigid temperatures and some of the harshest ...

Deep in the surface soil of a Chinese farm field, a microscopic predator has been quietly going about its business, unknown ...

Barbecue tongs were the sampling tool. To pull an amoeba out of a narrow geothermal tributary in Lassen Volcanic National Park, a Syracuse University team used extended tools and kitchen tongs to stay ...

A microscopic yeast that can quietly colonize the human brain has just yielded one of its most closely guarded secrets.

AI generated viral genomes produced viruses that overcome antibacterial resistance, raising new biosecurity concerns in ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Dawkins’ seminal book, The Selfish Gene, first published by Oxford University Press on January 1, 1976, a heady time when the United […] ...

This valuable study substantially improves the phylogenetic framework for Kinetoplastea through greatly expanded sampling of free-living neobodonids; the phylogenomic analyses provide convincing ...

It compiles studies on climate adaptation, fermentation control, powdery mildew and Australia’s first detection of GIN virus.

Something’s lurking in the boiling, bubbling hellscape beneath the mountainous expanse of pine boughs, wildflowers, and butterflies that is Lassen Volcanic National Park. Not many visitors brave this ...

A research consortium has generated the broadest look yet at the proteins that make up mitochondria, capturing the organelle's diversity across multiple branches on the tree of complex life. With ...