Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...

With protruding appendages that each end in an orb, Solarion arienae vaguely resembles a cartoon Sun or a retrofuturistic Sputnik chandelier. This single-celled organism could also begin to rewrite ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins based on environmental cues. This breaks a long-held biological rule that ...

Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique ...

New research on fern vascular systems reveals how developmental constraints don't just limit evolution—they generate new ...