Scientists have discovered a strange tubular structure inside Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium in the Asian citrus psyllid. These long, helical tubes, filled with ribosomes, show a complexity not ...

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants first evolved the ability ...

From controlling fire to decoding DNA, humans have achieved levels of adaptation unseen in nature. Biologists call this a “cultural evolution loop,” where ideas evolve faster than genes. This feedback ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

"Science evolves at the speed of light, diplomats move slowly": Brazilian envoy on Biological Weapons Convention ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...