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

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

The structural biologist, who has devoted his life to studying the processes behind aging, discusses the surprising things he ...

Life back then was confined to one cell organisms in the oceans. The continents were a barren landscape of grey, brown and black rocks and sediments. Rain falling on continental rocks dissolved iron ...

Bred for genetic uniformity, it is less varied genetically than its wild counterparts, and its gene pool contains only a single version of most genes. Some scientists consider the differences between ...

Life back then was confined to one cell organisms in the oceans. The continents were a barren landscape of grey, brown and black rocks and sediments. Rain falling on continental rocks dissolved ...