Before life evolved nerves and humans built electric circuits, motion arose with chemistry. In the earliest organisms, waves ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...

Microbiologists discover bacteria that eliminate toxic sulfide and use iron minerals to grow. An international group of ...

Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

Cancer thrives by hijacking the body's own basic survival systems, making it hard to attack tumors without collateral damage ...

In a discovery that ties the biology of aging to cancer risk, scientists from the University of Tokyo have found that the ...

Too much sun can ruin photosynthesis, scorching plants and other organisms that depend on capturing sunlight for energy.

Study suggests melting Arctic ice boosts nitrogen levels, potentially enriching marine life in region - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...

A new experiment reveals how Earth's earliest life may have sparked from nothing but deep-sea heat, metal, and a whisper of ...