A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.

Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...

How do living things evolve? What is the myriad of processes by which generic variations in a population affect organisms' ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern ...

A new study reveals the key lies not in the production of a regrowth molecule, but in that molecule's controlled destruction.

Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ... Any life found there would be evolutionarily adapted to its particular conditions – an idea ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Genetic analyses suggest a kinship with Niallia circulans, a soil bacterium, but with specific adaptations. Challenges for future space missions The presence of microbes in space stations raises ...