Scientists revived a 24,000-year-old microscopic organism frozen in Siberian permafrost, offering new insights into how life ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

One of the most fundamental questions in biology is how a single fertilized egg produces the diverse cell types making up the body – from neurons and skin to muscle and blood – that bear the same ...

An astrophysicist explores all that it took for life to exist on Earth, from the formation of stars to self-organizing ...

For most of us, pain is an unwelcome but vital warning system that tells us when something is wrong. However, for the small ...

Researchers found sex-specific gene expression networks linked to Alzheimer’s pathology using single-cell and systems-level ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ...

The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and ...

Astonishingly, scientists in Siberia revived microscopic rotifers from permafrost, dormant for nearly 24,000 years. These ...

The natural world doesn’t always fit neatly into our defined boundaries, says Will Newton ...