Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...

These microorganisms, already known for their astonishing resistance to the vacuum of space, ionizing radiation, and ...

Growing up, I can remember almost all of the tattered and worn posters that adorned the classrooms of my school. Many of them had historical timelines, periodic tables, and the ...

2025 was — and is still — supposed to be the year that the movies came roaring back from the various impediments that have ...

Beyond the loss of species, the researchers also documented considerable shifts in the types of species that persist under ...

The study sheds light on life during the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal time roughly 2.4 billion years ago when ...

Three faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the 2024 American Association for the ...

Scientists have long known that whole-genome duplication (WGD) — the process by which organisms copy all their genetic material — plays an important role in evolution. But understanding just how WGD ...