The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

A research team of the Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll ...

The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all ...

a vital group of simple plants found in various environments, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. It highlights the diverse forms of algae, from multicellular structures to unicellular organisms ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and could play a role in cancer ...

Urbanization reshapes soil microbes in surprising ways—bacteria adapt and become alike, while fungi resist change.

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...